Abnormal atrial depolarization associated with chiari network?

Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 214-216

  Prajapat, Laxman ^a   Ariyarajah, Vignendra ^b,c   Spodick, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari network, interatrial conduction; Right atrial enlargement; Widened P waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; P WAVE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYNCOPE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 34748886399     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096780     Document Type: Article

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