Combined epicardial and endocardial electroanatomic mapping in a porcine model of healed myocardial infarction

Circulation

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 3236-3242

  Reddy, Vivek Y ^a   Wrobleski, David ^b   Houghtaling, Christopher ^a   Josephson, Mark E ^b   Ruskin, Jeremy N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Electrophysiology; Mapping; Myocardial infarction; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIAL ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; EPICARDIAL ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART INFARCTION; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDIUM; REFERENCE VALUES; SWINE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0038417520     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000074280.62478.E1     Document Type: Article

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