A new echo-Doppler method to measure interatrial conduction time. Validation and clinical usefulness

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-15

  Antonini, L ^a   Ficili, S ^a   Pasceri, V ^a   Cianfrocca, C ^a   Galeazzi, M ^a   Pandozi, C ^a   Aiello, A ^a   Santini, M ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doppler; Echocardiography; Electrophysiological processes

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERATRIAL CONDUCTION TIME; MALE;

ATRIAL FUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79954485389     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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