The relationship between the left atrial volume and the maximum P-wave and P-wave dispersion in patients with congestive heart failure

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 810-817

  Kim, Dae Hyeok ^a   Kim, Gi Chang ^a   Kim, Soo Hyun ^a   Yu, Hyung Kwon ^a   Choi, Woong Gil ^a   An, In Sun ^a   Kwan, Jun ^a   Park, Keum Soo ^a   Lee, Woo Hyung ^a  

^a Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Left atrial volume; P wave dispersion; P wave duration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; SINUS NODE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUS ARREST, CARDIAC;

EID: 36248993378     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2007.48.5.810     Document Type: Article

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