Clinical and electrophysiological difference between idiopathic right ventricular outflow tract arrhythmias and pulmonary artery arrhythmias

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-169

  Yamashina, Yoshihiro ^a   Yagi, Tetsuo ^a   Namekawa, Akio ^a   Ishida, Akihiko ^a   Sato, Hirokazu ^a   Nakagawa, Takashi ^a   Sakuramoto, Manjirou ^a   Sato, Eiji ^a   Yambe, Tomoyuki ^b  

^a SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Premature ventricular complex; Pulmonary artery; Right ventricular outflow tract; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ARRHYTHMIA; SINUS RHYTHM; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 75749112582     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2009.01601.x     Document Type: Article

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