Proarrhythmic effect of altered ventricular activation sequence in patients with permanent pacemaker

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1487-1488

  Shimizu, Wataru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BRADYCARDIA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; R WAVE; RR INTERVAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; T WAVE; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 36549033207     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.08.025     Document Type: Editorial

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