Ventricular fibrillation threshold and local dispersion of refractoriness in isolated rabbit hearts with left ventricular dysfunction

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 359-367

  Burton, Francis L ^a   McPhaden, Alan R ^a   Cobbe, Stuart M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Electrophysiology; Epicardial mapping; Heart failure; Ventricular dilatation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART DEATH; HEART DILATATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; RABBITS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0033788374     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003950070034     Document Type: Article

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