Constrictive pericarditis presenting as a late complication of epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Javaheri, Ali ^a   Glassberg, Helene L ^a   Acker, Michael A ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Goldberg, Lee R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDIUM; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84860804959     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.965236     Document Type: Article

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