Diagnosis and Management of Typical Atrial Flutter

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-85

  Sawhney, Navinder S ^a   Feld, Gregory K ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACECAINIDE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DOFETILIDE; SOTALOL; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; CORONARY SINUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART BLOCK; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SINUS NODE; SINUS RHYTHM; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36448990444     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2007.08.005     Document Type: Review

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