Right bundle-branch block ventricular tachycardias: Septal versus lateral ventricular origin based on activation time to the right ventricular apex

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2582-2587

  Patel, Vickas V ^a   Rho, Robert W ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Hsia, Henry H ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundle branch block; Electrophysiology; Mapping; Tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7544241303     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000145542.24347.18     Document Type: Article

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