Assessment of atrial regional wall motion using strain Doppler imaging during biatrial pacing in the Bradycardia-Tachycardia syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 220-225

  Matsumoto, Katsumi ^a   Ishikawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Sumita, Shinichi ^a   Matsushita, Kohei ^a   Inoue, Noriko ^a   Kobayashi, Tsukasa ^a   Uchino, Kazuaki ^a   Kimura, Kazuo ^a   Umemura, Satoshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Biatrial pacing; Doppler imaging; Echocardiography; Intraatrial conduction delay; Myocardial strain

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; PILSICAINIDE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SPIKE; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744952972     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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