Prolonged RV endocardial activation duration: A novel marker of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 769-775

  Tandri, Harikrishna ^a   Asimaki, Angeliki ^b   Abraham, Theodore ^a   Dalal, Darshan ^a   Tops, Laurens ^c   Jain, Rahul ^a   Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^b   Judge, Daniel P ^a   Russell, Stuart D ^a   Halushka, Marc ^a   Bluemke, David A ^a   Kass, David A ^a   Calkins, Hugh ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Electroanatomic mapping; Right ventricular dysplasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65649087156     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.02.031     Document Type: Article

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