Mechanisms of VF maintenance: Wandering wavelets, mother rotors, or foci

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 405-415

  Tabereaux, Paul B ^a   Dosdall, Derek J ^b   Ideker, Raymond E ^a,b,c  

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

^b and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Purkinje fibers; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEFIBRILLATION; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; ISOLATED HEART; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL TIME; WAVEFORM; WENCKEBACH PERIOD;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; PURKINJE FIBERS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 60749106674     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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