Focus, reentry, or "focal" reentry?

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Janse, Michiel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITINE;

AFTERDISCHARGE; EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TACHYCARDIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KINETICS; PERICARDIUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 34447514068     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00167.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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