Assessing epicardial substrate using intracardiac echocardiography during VT ablation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 667-673

  Bala, Rupa ^a   Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a   Desjardins, Benoit ^a   Tschabrunn, Cory ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Deo, Rajat ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Garcia, Fermin C ^a   Cooper, Joshua ^a   Lin, David ^a   Riley, Michael P ^a   Tzou, Wendy S ^a   Verdino, Ralph ^a   Epstein, Andrew E ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Echocardiography; Epicardial mapping; Imaging; Tachycardia ventricular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84555208272     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.963553     Document Type: Article

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