Human ventricular fibrillation during global ischemia and reperfusion: Paradoxical changes in activation rate and wavefront complexity

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 684-691

  Bradley, Chris P ^a,c   Clayton, Richard H ^b   Nash, Martyn P ^c,d   Mourad, Ayman ^e   Hayward, Martin ^f   Paterson, David J ^a   Taggart, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Heart; Myocardial ischemia; Reentry; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRODE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PERICARDIUM; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84555219917     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.961284     Document Type: Article

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