Ablation of ventricular tachycardia: Neither inside nor out, thus back to alcohol

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1230-1231

  Delacrétaz, Etienne ^a   Seiler, Jens ^a   Tanner, Hildegard ^a   Hess, Otto M ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alcohol Ablation; Catheter ablation; Epicardial mapping; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AJMALINE; ALCOHOL; AMIODARONE; FLECAINIDE; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART PACING; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RECURRENT DISEASE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ETHANOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 33749067593     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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