Differential entrainment: Beware from where you pace

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1097-1099

  Platonov, Michael ^a   Schroeder, Kandice ^a   Veenhuyzen, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART PACING; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 34547449350     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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