Prevalence of interatrial block in healthy school-aged children: Definition by P-wave duration or morphological analysis

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-25

  Dilaveris, Polychronis ^a   Raftopoulos, Leonidas ^a   Giannopoulos, Georgios ^a   Katinakis, Stylianos ^a   Maragiannis, Dimitrios ^a   Roussos, Dimitrios ^a   Gatzoulis, Konstantinos ^a   Michaelides, Andreas ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Interatrial block; Orthogonal P wave morphology; P wave duration; Vectorcardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMAN; INTERATRIAL BLOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; P WAVE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 75649110029     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2009.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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