Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in Brugada Syndrome

The Brugada Syndrome: From Bench to Bedside

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 178-183

  Borggrefe, Martin ^a   Schimpf, Rainer ^a   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^b   Eckardt, Lars ^c   Wolpert, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial tachyarrhythmias; Atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT); Brugada syndrome; Supraventricular tachycardias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846625997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470994900.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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