Atrial electromechanical sequence and contraction synchrony during single- and multisite atrial pacing in patients with brady-tachycardia syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 591-603

  Da̧browska Kugacka, Alicja ^a   Lewicka Nowak, Ewa ^a   RuciŃski, Piotr ^b   Zagozdzon, PaweŁ ^a   Raczak, Grzegorz ^a   Kutarski, Andrzej ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRADY TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; BRADYCARDIA; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SINUS RHYTHM; TACHYCARDIA; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

AGED; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65649092558     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02332.x     Document Type: Article

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