Paroxysmal atrioventricular block: Are phase 3 and phase 4 block mechanisms or misnomers?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1514-1521

  El Sherif, Nabil ^a   Jalife, José ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Pause dependent AV Block; Syncope; Tachycardia dependent AV block

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BRADYCARDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HIS BUNDLE POTENTIAL; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PAUSE DEPENDENT PAROXYSMAL ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SODIUM CURRENT; STROKES ADAMS SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA DEPENDENT PAROXYSMAL ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 77949513547     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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