Catheter Ablation of Subepicardial Ventricular Tachycardia Using Electroanatomic Mapping

Herz

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 591-597

  Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Bänsch, Dietmar ^b   Schaumann, Anselm ^b   Ernst, Sabine ^b   Linder, Christian ^b   Falk, Peter ^b   Hachiya, Hitoshi ^b   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^b   Antz, Matthias ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ablation; Electrophysiology; Mapping; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MORPHOLOGY; QRS COMPLEX; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SINUS RHYTHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0344394222     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00059-003-2494-8     Document Type: Article

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