Spatiotemporal complexity of ventricular fibrillation revealed by tissue mass reduction in isolated swine right ventricle: Further evidence for the quasiperiodic route to chaos hypothesis

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2486-2500

  Kim, Young Hoon ^a   Garfinkel, Alan ^a   Ikeda, Takanori ^a   Wu, Tsu Juey ^a   Athill, Charles A ^a   Weiss, James N ^a   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^a   Chen, Peng Sheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potentials, G7.453.697.100+; Activation analysis, E5.196.39; Electrophysiology, G1.344.528; Mathematics; H1.548+; Tachycardia, ventricular, C14.280.67.845.940

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SWINE;

EID: 0030780761     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119791     Document Type: Article

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