Right and left inferior extensions of the atrioventricular node may represent the anatomic substrate of the slow pathway in humans

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 582-586

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a   Becker, Anton E ^b   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^c   Karabinos, Ilias ^a   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Camm, A John ^d  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Medical College of Virginia   (United States)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node; Nodal extensions; Slow pathway

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART STIMULATION; HIS BUNDLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 7744235192     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.07.009     Document Type: Article

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