Analysis of the anatomical tachycardia circuit in verapamil-sensitive atrial tachycardia originating from the vicinity of the atrioventricular node

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-62

  Yamabe, Hiroshige ^a   Tanaka, Yasuaki ^a   Morihisa, Kenji ^a   Uemura, Takashi ^a   Enomoto, Koji ^a   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node; Mapping; Tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

VERAPAMIL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 77649302150     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.109.878678     Document Type: Article

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