Myocardial vulnerability to T wave shocks: Relation to shock strength, shock coupling interval, and dispersion of ventricular repolarization

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-242

  Fabritz, C Larissa ^a,b   Kirchhof, Paulus F ^a,b   Behrens, Steffen ^a   Zabel, Markus ^a,c   Franz, Michael R ^a,d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillation threshold; monophasic action potentials; repolarization dispersion; ventricular fibrillation; ventricular repolarization

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART PERFUSION; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; T WAVE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0029974549     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.1996.tb00520.x     Document Type: Article

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