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Brief report| Volume 74, ISSUE 5, P500-503, September 01, 1994

“Vagal maneuvers” and adenosine for termination of atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(94)90914-8
“Vagal maneuvers” and adenosine for termination of atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia
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      Article info

      Publication history

      Accepted: March 3, 1994
      Received: December 15, 1993

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(94)90914-8

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      © 1994 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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