Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor suppresses the incidence of prolonged and fractionated right atrial electrograms

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-170

  Shibata, Riyako ^a   Nakao, Kojiro ^a   Fukae, Satoki ^a   Matsuo, Kiyotaka ^a   Yano, Katsusuke ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Clinical; Electrophysiology; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ALACEPRIL; CAPTOPRIL; DELAPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; IMIDAPRIL; LISINOPRIL; QUINAPRIL; TEMOCAPRIL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREDICTION; SINUS RHYTHM;

ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33645239507     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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