Location of diastolic potentials in reentrant circuits causing sustained ventricular tachycardia in the infarcted canine heart: Relationship to predicted critical ablation sites

Circulation

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 2598-2607

  Cabo, Candido ^a   Schmitt, Heiko ^a   Masters, Gregory ^a   Coromilas, James ^a   Wit, Andrew L ^a   Scheinman, Melvin M ^b  

^a Coll Phys Surgs Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Mapping; Myocardial infarction; Reentry; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DIASTOLE; DOG; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

EID: 0032497919     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.98.23.2598     Document Type: Article

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