Relationship of specific electrogram characteristics during sinus rhythm and ventricular pacing determined by adaptive template matching to the location of functional reentrant circuits that cause ventricular tachycardia in the infarcted canine heart

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 446-457

  Ciaccio, Edward J ^a,b   Scheinman, Melvin M ^c   Wit, Andrew L ^a  

^a Department of Pharmacology ^*  (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrograms; Mapping; Reentry; Sinus rhythm; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DOG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SINUS RHYTHM;

EID: 0034002128     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2000.tb00341.x     Document Type: Article

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