Relationship between P-wave duration and atrial electromechanical delay assessed by tissue doppler echocardiography

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-31

  Da̧browska Kugacka, Alicja ^a   Lewicka Nowak, Ewa ^a   Ruciński, Piotr ^b   Zagozdzon, Pawel ^a   Raczak, Grzegorz ^a   Kutarski, Andrzej ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

atrial electromechanical delay; echocardiography; electrocardiography; P wave duration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

EID: 78651266441     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02939.x     Document Type: Article

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