Keywords
- Ventricular Pace
- Accessory Pathway
- Effective Refractory Period
- Reentrant Tachycardia
- Atrial Effective Refractory Period
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Law, I.H. (2006). Atrioventricular Reentry Tachycardia. In: Dick, M. (eds) Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Young. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 257. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29170-9_4
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