Role of the low amplitude potential in the initial P wave signal-averaged elestrogram in sick sinus syndrome

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 985-990

  Takase, Hidehito ^a   Imai, Shinobu ^a   Saito, Fumio ^a   Yagi, Hiroshi ^a   Kushiro, Toshio ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial conduction; P wave signal averaged electrocardiogram; Sick sinus syndrome; Sino atrial conduction; Sinus node eloectrogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HIS BUNDLE ELECTROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; P WAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINOATRIAL NODE;

EID: 33746778412     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.985     Document Type: Article

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