Frequent additional tachyarrhythmias in patients with inappropriate sinus tachycardia undergoing sinus node modification: An important cause of symptom recurrence

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 835-839

  Frankel, David S ^a   Lin, David ^a   Anastasio, Nicholas ^a   Mountantonakis, Stavros E ^b   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a   Riley, Michael P ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a   Callans, David J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

beta blocker; catheter ablation; inappropriate sinus tachycardia; supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; FENTANYL; ISOPRENALINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS NODE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PENNSYLVANIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SINOATRIAL NODE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA, SINUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866126428     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2012.02297.x     Document Type: Article

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