Altered interatrial conduction detected in MADIT II patients bound to develop atrial fibrillation

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 268-275

  Holmqvist, Fredrik ^a,c   Platonov, Pyotr G ^a   Carlson, Jonas ^a   Zareba, Wojciech ^b   Moss, Arthur J ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atrial Electrophysiology; Atrial fibrillation; ECG; ICD; Ischemic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 62549110096     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2009.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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