Relationship between successful ablation sites and the scar border zone defined by substrate mapping for ventricular tachycardia post-myocardial infarction

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-471

  Verma, Atul ^a   Marrouche, Nassir F ^a   Schweikert, Robert A ^a   Saliba, Walid ^a   Wazni, Oussama ^a   Cummings, Jennifer ^a   Abdul Karim, Ahmad ^a   Bhargava, Mandeep ^a   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Kilicaslan, Fethi ^a   Martin, David O ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Ischemic scar; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; GATED IMAGING; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; CICATRIX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20944448533     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2005.40443.x     Document Type: Article

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