ECG identification of scar-related ventricular tachycardia with a left bundle-branch block configuration

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 486-493

  Wijnmaalen, Adrianus P ^a   Stevenson, William G ^b   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Field, Michael E ^b   Stephenson, Kent ^b   Tedrow, Usha B ^b   Koplan, Bruce A ^b   Putter, Hein ^a   Epstein, Lawrence M ^b   Zeppenfeld, Katja ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; ECG criteria; Imaging; Mapping; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SCAR; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SCAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; CICATRIX; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 80054056051     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.959338     Document Type: Article

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