Ablation of nonsustained or hemodynamically unstable ventricular arrhythmia originating from the right ventricular outflow tract guided by noncontact mapping

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1699-1705

  Fung, Jeffrey W H ^a   Chan, Hamish C K ^a   Chan, Joseph Y S ^a   Chan, Winnie W L ^a   Kum, Leo C C ^a   Sanderson, John E ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Noncontact mapping; Right ventricular outflow tract

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041699707     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00255.x     Document Type: Article

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