Ablation of ventricular tachycardia

Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 225-233

  Garcia, Fermin C ^a   Valles, Ermengol ^a   Dhruvakumar, Sandhya ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Complications; Heart failure; Tamponade; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTERY INJURY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART BLOCK; HEART CATHETER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; NERVE INJURY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349108190     PISSN: 09387412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00399-007-0583-8     Document Type: Review

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