Intramural activation during early human ventricular fibrillation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 692-703

  Nair, Krishnakumar ^a   Umapathy, Karthikeyan ^a   Farid, Talha ^a   Masse, Stephane ^a   Mueller, Erin ^a   Sivanandan, Radhika V ^a   Poku, Kwaku ^a   Rao, Vivek ^a   Nair, Vidhya ^a   Butany, Jagdish ^a   Ideker, Raymond E ^b   Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Epicardial mapping; Sinoatrial node reentry tachycardia; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOLATED HEART; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ELECTRODES; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PERICARDIUM; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84555219937     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.961037     Document Type: Article

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