Localizing the accessory pathway in ventricular preexcitation patients using a score based algorithm

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-12

  Rantner, L J ^a,b,c   Stuhlinger M C ^b   Nowak, C N ^a   Spuller, K ^b   Etsadashvili, K ^b   Stuhlinger X ^b   Berger, T ^b   Dichtl, W ^b   Gothe, R M ^a   Fischer, G ^a   Hintringer, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory pathway; Algorithms; Delta wave; Electrocardiography; Wolff Parkinson White syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ACCESSORY ATRIOVENTRICULAR BUNDLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855798196     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME11-01-0046     Document Type: Article

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