Refractory ventricular tachycardia secondary to cardiac sarcoid: Electrophysiologic characteristics, mapping, and ablation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 924-929

  Koplan, Bruce A ^a   Soejima, Kyoko ^a   Baughman, Kenneth ^a   Epstein, Laurence M ^a   Stevenson, William G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Catheter ablation; Sarcoid; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS;

ADULT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746309024     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.03.031     Document Type: Article

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