Assessment of atrial conduction time in patients with familial mediterranean fever

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 308-313

  Acar, Gurkan ^a   Akcay, Ahmet ^a   Sayarlioglu, Mehmet ^a   Sokmen, Abdullah ^a   Sokmen, Gulizar ^a   Koroglu, Sedat ^a   Gunduz, Mehmet ^a   Ispiroglu, Murat ^a   Tuncer, Cemal ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial electromechanical coupling; Familial Mediterranean fever; P wave dispersion; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; P WAVE; PROGNOSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61449112114     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.02237.x     Document Type: Article

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