Ventricular tachycardia with a myocardial fibre travelling from the origin in the right aortic sinus cusp to the epicardial breakout site of the right ventricular outflow tract

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-470

  Yamada, Takumi ^a   McElderry, H Thomas ^a   Doppalapudi, Harish ^a   Kay, G Neal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic sinus cusp; Electrophysiology; Epicardial; Myocardial fibre; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART CELL CULTURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PERICARDIUM; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 44449171937     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eun051     Document Type: Article

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