Dispersion of ventricular repolarization in the voltage domain

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1 I, 1998, Pages 100-107

  Behrens, Steffen ^a,b   Li, Cuilan ^a   Knollmann, Björn G ^a   Franz, Michael R ^a,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiodarone; Dispersion; Monophasic action potential; Ventricular repolarization

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; DEETHYLAMIODARONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABBIT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMIODARONE; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RABBITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0031934166     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01067.x     Document Type: Article

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