Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 6 , Pages 660-664 , June 2006

Beat-to-beat QT dynamics in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

  • Charlotte E. Larroude, MD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Department of Medicine, Elsinore Hospital, Helsingør, Denmark
    • Danish Arrhythmia Research Center (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Berit T. Jensen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Department of Medicine, Elsinore Hospital, Helsingør, Denmark
    • Danish Arrhythmia Research Center (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Erik Agner, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Elsinore Hospital, Helsingør, Denmark
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  • Egon Toft, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Aalborg Hospital, Århus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
    • Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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  • Christian Torp-Pedersen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Kristian Wachtell, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
    • Department of Cardiology B, The Heart Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Jørgen K. Kanters, MD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Department of Medicine, Elsinore Hospital, Helsingør, Denmark
    • Danish Arrhythmia Research Center (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Jørgen K. Kanters, Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3C, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.

Received 15 December 2005 ,Accepted 15 February 2006.

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 This study was supported by grants from the Danish Heart Foundation, the Danish National Research Foundation, and The Research Foundation of Frederiksborg County.

PII: S1547-5271(06)00183-4

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.02.021

Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 6 , Pages 660-664 , June 2006

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