Prevalence and electrocardiographic characteristics of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmia originating in the free wall of the right ventricular outflow tract

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 909-914

  Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Ito, Sachiko ^a   Naito, Shigeto ^a   Kurosaki, Kenji ^a   Ueda, Marehiko ^a   Shinbo, Goro ^a   Hoshizaki, Hiroshi ^a   Oshima, Shigeru ^a   Nogami, Akihiko ^b   Taniguchi, Koichi ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Electrocardiogram; Premature ventricular contraction; Right ventricular outflow tract; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; Q WAVE; R WAVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ELECTRODE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 6944247406     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.909     Document Type: Article

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