Myocardial angiogenesis resulting in functional communications with the left cavity induced by intramyocardial high-frequency ablation: Histomorphology of immediate and long-term effects in pigs

Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-38

  Dietz, Ulrich ^a   Horstick, Georg ^b   Manke, Tobias ^b   Otto, Mike ^b   Eick, Olaf ^c   Kirkpatrick, C James ^b   Meyer, Jürgen ^b   Darius, Harald ^b  

^a DEUTSCHE KLINIK FÜR DIAGNOSTIK   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High frequency ablation; Myocardial perfusion; Myocardial revascularization

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; NECROSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SWINE;

EID: 0037274367     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068450     Document Type: Article

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