Incessant ventricular tachycardia in fulminant lymphocytic myocarditis: Evidence for origin in the Purkinje system and successful treatment with ablation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-91

  Zeppenfeld, Katja ^a   Blom, Nico A ^a   Bootsma, Marianne ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Myocarditis; Purkinje ablation; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOCARDITIS; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; QRS COMPLEX; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MYOCARDITIS; PURKINJE FIBERS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 33845799297     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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