Mechanisms that initiate ventricular tachycardia in the infarcted human heart

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-64

  Segal, Oliver R ^a   Chow, Anthony W C ^a   Peters, Nicholas S ^a   Davies, D Wyn ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Electrophysiology; Infarction; Reentry; Tachycardia; Ventricles

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; MEXILETINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINUS RHYTHM; VELOCITY;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 72449159673     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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