Novel use of atrial overdrive pacing to rapidly differentiate junctional tachycardia from atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 840-844

  Fan, Roger ^a   Tardos, Jonathan G ^a   Almasry, Ibrahim ^a   Barbera, Saverio ^a   Rashba, Eric J ^a   Iwai, Sei ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial overdrive pacing; Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; Catheter ablation; Diagnostic pacing maneuver; Junctional tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM OVERDRIVE PACING; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC JUNCTIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957734273     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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