Correlation between substrate location and ablation strategy in patients with ventricular tachycardia late after myocardial infarction

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1192-1199

  Yoshiga, Yasuhiro ^a   Mathew, Shibu ^a   Wissner, Erik ^a   Tilz, Roland ^a   Fuernkranz, Alexander ^a   Metzner, Andreas ^a   Rillig, Andreas ^a   Konstantinidou, Melanie ^a   Igarashi, Miyako ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology; Ischemic heart disease; Myocardial infarction; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANTERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864453719     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.03.058     Document Type: Article

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