Catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia after failed endocardial ablation: Epicardial substrate or inappropriate endocardial ablation?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1746-1752

  Schmidt, Boris ^a   Chun, Kyong Ryoul Julian ^a   Baensch, Dietmar ^a   Antz, Matthias ^a   Koektuerk, Buelent ^a   Tilz, Roland R ^a   Metzner, Andreas ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Epicardial mapping; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDIAL ABLATION; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RECURRENCE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 78650097698     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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