Novel mechanism of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia originating in surviving left posterior Purkinje fibers

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 908-918

  Hayashi, Meiso ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshinori ^a   Iwasaki, Yu ki ^a   Morita, Norishige ^a   Miyauchi, Yasushi ^a   Kato, Takao ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Electrophysiologic study; Myocardial infarction; Purkinje fiber; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; CARVEDILOL; ISOPRENALINE; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; PROCAINAMIDE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; DIASTOLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIS BUNDLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; QRS COMPLEX; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SYSTOLE;

AGED; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PURKINJE FIBERS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 33746777280     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.04.019     Document Type: Article

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