Three-Dimensional Electroanatomical Voltage Mapping and Histologic Evaluation of Myocardial Substrate in Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 731-739

  Corrado, Domenico ^a   Basso, Cristina ^a   Leoni, Loira ^a   Tokajuk, Barbara ^a   Turrini, Pietro ^a   Bauce, Barbara ^a   Migliore, Federico ^a   Pavei, Andrea ^a   Tarantini, Giuseppe ^a   Napodano, Massimo ^a   Ramondo, Angelo ^a   Buja, Gianfranco ^a   Iliceto, Sabino ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT TACHYCARDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL ELECTROANATOMICAL VOLTAGE MAPPING;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 38949186807     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.11.027     Document Type: Article

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