Termination of ventricular tachycardia in the human heart: Insights from three-dimensional mapping of nonsustained and sustained ventricular tachycardias

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2528-2540

  Pogwizd, Steven M ^a   Chung, Mina K ^b   Cain, Michael E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

death, sudden; mapping; tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030998949     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.11.2528     Document Type: Article

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