Can mapping differentiate microreentry from a focus in the ventricle?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1666-1669

  Ideker, Raymond E ^a,b,c   Rogers, Jack M ^b   Fast, Vladimir ^b   Li, Li ^a   Kay, G Neal ^a   Pogwizd, Steven M ^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

Arrhythmias; Electrical mapping; Focal activation; Microentry; Optical mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 70350568242     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.012     Document Type: Article

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