Test characteristics of neck fullness and witnessed neck pulsations in the diagnosis of typical AV nodal reentrant tachycardia

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Sakhuja, Rahul ^a   Smith, Lisa M ^b   Tseng, Zian H ^b   Badhwar, Nitish ^b   Lee, Byron K ^b   Lee, Randall J ^b   Scheinman, Melvin M ^b   Olgin, Jeffrey E ^b   Marcus, Gregory M ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MUE 434 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 69249200788     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20455     Document Type: Article

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