Unusual ECG pattern of right atrial appendage atrial tachycardia in one patient with right pneumonectomy

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Suenari, Kazuyoshi ^a   Chang, Shih Lin ^a,b   Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a,b   Lo, Li Wei ^a,b   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial tachycardia; P wave morphology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; P WAVE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SINUS NODE; SINUS RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951524558     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02632.x     Document Type: Article

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