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Electrophysiological studies are instrumental methods enabling the registration of electric endocavitary cardiac signals relative to the various phases of the cardiac cycle. Registration is carried out through unipolar or bipolar electrocatheters, which also allow electrical stimulation of the heart. Stimulation of the cardiac chambers is an extremely useful method for accurately measuring intervals and/or pauses and for reproducing in the laboratory arrhythmias that patients may experience clinically (arrhythmic inducibility test). Electrophysiological evaluations can be performed via the transesophageal or endocavitary pathways. All the material used both for endocavitary and transesophageal electrophysiological studies is sterile and for single use.
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Sciarra, L. et al. (2012). Electrophysiological Studies in Athletes. In: Fioranelli, M., Frajese, G. (eds) Sports Cardiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2775-6_16
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