Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is associated with increased intra-atrial conduction delay

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1415-1420

  Pytkowski, Mariusz ^a   Jankowska, Agnieszka ^a   Maciag, Aleksander ^a   Kowalik, Ilona ^a   Sterlinski, MacIej ^a   Szwed, Hanna ^a   Saumarez, Richard C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Paced electrogram fractionation analysis (PEFA)

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DEATH; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PACED ELECTROGRAM FRACTIONATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 56749180988     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eun282     Document Type: Article

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