Ventricular tachycardia induced cardiomyopathy: Improvement with radiofrequency ablation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 505-508

  Jaggarao, Nattama S V ^a   Nanda, Ardaman S ^a   Daubert, James P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiomyopathy; radiofrequency ablation; ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY; TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; SYSTOLE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0029875033     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb06525.x     Document Type: Article

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