Ventricular tachycardia in a patient with inclusion-body myositis

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Prutkin, Jordan M ^a   Patton, Kristen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology clinical; Pathology; VT

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DILTIAZEM; LORAZEPAM; METOPROLOL; SOTALOL; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; SEDATION;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOSITIS, INCLUSION BODY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 70449722869     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02534.x     Document Type: Article

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