Alcohol ablation for ventricular tachycardia: A distillation of modern cases

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-70

  Kim, Susan S ^a   Knight, Bradley P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EPICARDIUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCORONARY ETHANOL ABLATION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

CATHETER ABLATION; ETHANOL; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37649020485     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.10.002     Document Type: Editorial

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