Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 831-840

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a   Camm, A John ^b  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

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

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Atrioventricular node; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART PACING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 77956646311     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.936591     Document Type: Article

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