Decremental ramp atrial extrastimuli pacing protocol for the induction of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia and other supraventricular tachycardias

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1096-1104

  Kantharia, Bharat K ^a   Padder, Farooq A ^b   Kutalek, Steven P ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia mechanism; Atrioventricular nodal re entrant tachycardia; Radiofrequency ablation; Supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; RELIABILITY; STANDARD; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYMPTOM;

ARRHYTHMIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIZZINESS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 33750046330     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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