Electrocardiographic and electrophysiologic features of ventricular arrhythmias originating from the right/left coronary cusp commissure

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 312-322

  Bala, Rupa ^a   Garcia, Fermin C ^a   Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Dhruvakumar, Sandhya ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Cooper, Joshua M ^a   Lin, David ^a   Harding, John ^a   Riley, Michael P ^a   Zado, Erica ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a Electrophysiology Section   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Echocardiography; Electrophysiology; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; EXTERNAL ILIAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; TISSUE FLAP;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 76849095307     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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