A case of cardiac sarcoidosis: Significance of ventricular tachycardia originating from the septum

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 458-461

  Kawamura, Yuichiro ^b   Yoshida, Ayumi ^b   Toyoshima, Eri ^b   Sato, Nobuyuki ^b   Kawashima, Eiji ^b   Hasebe, Naoyuki ^b   Kikuchi, Kenjiro ^b   Matsuhashi, Hironobu ^a  

^a Takikawa Municipal Hospital

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac sarcoidosis; Echocardiography; Electrophysiologic study; Fragmented potentials; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 0031805879     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.458     Document Type: Article

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