Mother rotors and the mechanisms of D600-induced type 2 ventricular fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2110-2118

  Wu, Tsu Juey ^a   Lin, Shien Fong ^b   Baher, Ali ^b   Qu, Zhilin ^b   Garfinkel, Alan ^b   Weiss, James N ^b   Ting, Chih Tai ^a   Chen, Peng Sheng ^b  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Fibrillation; Mapping; Ventricles

Indexed keywords

GALLOPAMIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GALLOPAMIL; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; PERICARDIUM; RABBITS; SODIUM CHANNELS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 5644254166     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000143834.51102.91     Document Type: Article

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