Left bundle branch-Purkinje system in patients with bundle branch reentrant tachycardia: Lessons from catheter ablation and electroanatomic mapping

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-58

  Schmidt, Boris ^a   Tang, Min ^a   Chun, K R Julian ^a   Antz, Matthias ^a   Tilz, Roland R ^a   Metzner, Andreas ^a   Koektuerk, Bulent ^a   Xie, Ping ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Bundle branch block; Electrocardiography; Electrophysiology; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; AGED; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURKINJE FIBERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, RECIPROCATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 58149478524     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.09.028     Document Type: Article

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