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Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias

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Some basic mechanisms of atrioventricular (AV) junctional tachycardias are presented in this section At a Glance. Why? For AV nodal reentrant tachycardia the enormous progress in electrophysiology and therapy of arrhythmias can be illustrated in an exemplary manner.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern, University Clinic Inselspital, CH-3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Professor Dr. Marc Gertsch

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Gertsch, M. (2004). Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias. In: The ECG. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10315-9_24

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