Journal of Electrocardiology
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 334-338 , July 2009

Improvement of P wave dispersion after cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure

Received 30 December 2008

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☆ Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 30770860).

PII: S0022-0736(09)00061-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2009.02.005

Journal of Electrocardiology
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 334-338 , July 2009

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