Rate control: Is local better?

Circulation

Volumn 113, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 2374-2376

  Wang, Paul J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmia agents; Atrioventricular node; Catheters; Editorials; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALCOHOL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE; NEUROHORMONE; PROCAINAMIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE;

CARDIOVERSION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LOCAL THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; HEART RATE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS;

EID: 33744466019     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.626036     Document Type: Editorial

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