Epicardial neodymium: YAG laser photocoagulation of ventricular tachycardia without ventriculotomy in patients after myocardial infarction

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3221-3225

  Pfeiffer, Dietrich ^a,d   Moosdorf, Rainer ^b   Svenson, Robert H ^c   Littmann, Laszlo ^c   Grimm, Wolfram ^b   Kirchhoff, Paul G ^a   Lüderitz, Berndt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Carolinas Heart Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; death, sudden; lasers; surgery; tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MEXILETINE; NEODYMIUM; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030470974     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.12.3221     Document Type: Article

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