Site-specific twelve-lead ECG features to identify an epicardial origin for left ventricular tachycardia in the absence of myocardial infarction

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1403-1410

  Bazan, Victor ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Garcia, Fermin C ^a   Bala, Rupa ^a   Rivas, Nuria ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Zado, Erica ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epicardium; Left ventricle; Myocardial infarction; Twelve lead ECG; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 35348915952     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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