Perivalvular fibrosis and monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: Toward a unifying hypothesis in nonischemic cardiomyopathy

Circulation

Volumn 116, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1998-2001

  Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Ablation, catheter; Cardiac valves; Cardiomyopathies; Editorials; Tachycardia; Ventricles

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; EDITORIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; MYOCARDITIS; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FIBROSIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 35649027879     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.731125     Document Type: Editorial

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