Characteristics of wavefront propagation in reentrant circuits causing human ventricular tachycardia

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 2172-2178

  Chow, Anthony W C ^a   Schilling, Richard J ^a   Davies, D Wyn ^a   Peters, Nicholas S ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mapping; Tachycardia; Ventricles; Waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; VELOCITY;

AGED; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0037035486     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000015702.49326.BC     Document Type: Article

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