Intermittent claudication caused by frequent premature ventricular complexes: Resolution after radiofrequency ablation

Angiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 378-381

  Stec, Sebastian ^a   Zaborska, Beata ^a   Piluś, Agnieszka ^a   Lewandowski, Paweł ^a   Kułakowski, Piotr ^a  

^a GROCHOWSKI HOSPITAL   (Poland)

Author keywords

6 minute walk test; Ablation; Electrophysiology "clinical; Intermittent claudication; Premature ventricular complexes

Indexed keywords

PROPAFENONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE BIGEMINY; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG CRAMP; PSORIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 67849086925     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707312520     Document Type: Article

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