Mapping and ablation of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1700-1706

  Szumowski, Lukasz ^a   Sanders, Prashanthan ^b   Walczak, Franciszek ^a   Hocini, Mélèze ^b   Jaïs, Pierre ^b   Kepski, Roman ^a   Szufladowicz, Ewa ^a   Urbanek, Piotr ^a   Derejko, Paweł ^a   Bodalski, Robert ^a   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MEXILETINE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MAPPING; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PURKINJE FIBERS; RECURRENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 5644294413     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.08.034     Document Type: Article

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