Using Electrocardiographic Activation Time and Diastolic Intervals to Separate Focal From Macro-Re-Entrant Atrial Tachycardias

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1965-1973

  Brown, Jason P ^a   Krummen, David E ^a   Feld, Gregory K ^a   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA; GOLD STANDARD; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MACRO REENTRANT ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; T WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FLUTTER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247192900     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.10.080     Document Type: Article

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