Mapping of right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia/ectopies: Activation mapping versus pace mapping

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-347

  De Ponti, Roberto ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^a,b  

^a OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ACCURACY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 39649107736     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.11.017     Document Type: Editorial

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