ECG criteria to identify epicardial ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-71

  Vallès, Ermengol ^a,b   Bazan, Victor ^a,b   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ECG criteria; Epicardial; Nonischemic cardiomyopathy; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 77649316433     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.109.859942     Document Type: Article

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