Supraventricular Tachycardia After Orthotopic Cardiac Transplantation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 2241-2249

  Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Kedia, Rohit ^a   Patel, Jignesh K ^a   Cesario, David A ^a   Wiener, Isaac ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; SOTALOL; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44449120763     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.02.065     Document Type: Article

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