Retrograde slow pathway conduction in patients with atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 458-465

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^b   Becker, Anton E ^c   Camm, A John ^d  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrioventricular node; Slow pathway; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547894709     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum067     Document Type: Article

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