Role of repeat procedures for catheter ablation of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1516-1522

  Kosmidou, Ioanna ^a   Inada, Keiichi ^a   Seiler, Jens ^a   Koplan, Bruce ^a   Stevenson, William G ^a   Tedrow, Usha B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Outcomes; Prognosis; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPEAT PROCEDURE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 80053050659     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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