<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Jadidi AS</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Sunthorn H</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Burri H</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Gentil-Baron P</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Shah D</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2009</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">A 19-year-old girl was referred to our cardiology department for catheter ablation (isolation of the pulmonary veins) of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). The diagnosis was made upon a 12-lead ECG of the arrhythmia documented in the emergency room. The ECG showed an irregular tachycardia without wide QRS complexes. Careful assessment revealed the irregularity of the rhythm was a sweep artifact due to a mechanic failure of the ECG-machine to advance the article smoothly. During EP study a concealed anteroseptal accessory pathway causing an orthodromic AV reentrant tachycardia was eliminated by radio-frequency ablation. This example emphasizes the need for careful assessment of an ECG tracing, including printed legends and technical data.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/216365</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/j.1542-474X.2008.00266.x</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/19149800</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc. - 2009</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Artifacts</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Atrial Fibrillation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Catheter Ablation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Diagnosis, Differential</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Electrocardiography</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Female</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Humans</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Sensitivity and Specificity</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">Young Adult</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">Is this atrial fibrillation?</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>