Three-dimensional mechanisms of increased vulnerability to electric shocks in myocardial infarction: Altered virtual electrode polarizations and conduction delay in the peri-infarct zone

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4537-4551

  Rantner, Lukas J ^a,b   Arevalo, Hermenegild J ^a,b   Constantino, Jason L ^a,b   Efimov, Igor R ^c   Plank, Gernot ^d   Trayanova, Natalia A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART EXCITATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RABBITS;

EID: 84866397962     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.229088     Document Type: Article

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