Risk factors for atrioventricular tachycardia degenerating to atrial flutter/fibrillation in the young with Wolff-Parkinson-White

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1307-1312

  Harahsheh, Ashraf ^a   Du, Wei ^a   Singh, Harinder ^a   Karpawich, Peter P ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Demographics; Pediatrics; Supraventricular tachycardia; Wolff Parkinson White

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ATRIAL FLUTTER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICHIGAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 52049115121     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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