Partial atrioventricular canal defect with inverted atrioventricular nodal input into an inferiorly displaced atrioventricular node

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-358

  Khairy, Paul ^a   Mercier, Lise Andrée ^a   Dore, Annie ^a   Dubuc, Marc ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; Congenital heart disease; Cryoablation; Electroanatomic mapping

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CRYOABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 33847245065     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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