Clinical importance of short-long-short sequences: Analysing the mode of onset of ventricular tachycardias and atrial fibrillation

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-180

  Gorenek, Bulent ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Mode of onset; Short long short sequence; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BEAT; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349464916     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.05.032     Document Type: Article

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