Successful Catheter Ablation of Electrical Storm after Myocardial Infarction

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3011-3016

  Bänsch, Dietmar ^a   Oyang, Feifan ^a   Antz, Matthias ^a   Arentz, Thomas ^a   Weber, Reinhold ^a   Val Mejias, Jesus E ^b   Ernst, Sabine ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a,c  

^a AK St Georg ^*  (Germany)

^b Wichita Inst for Clinical Research   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Fibrillation; Myocardial infarction; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRICAL STORM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17744402086     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000103701.30662.5C     Document Type: Article

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