Intracardiac J-point elevation before the onset of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1594-1602

  Tereshchenko, Larisa G ^a   McCabe, Aaron ^b   Han, Lichy ^c   Sur, Sanjoli ^c   Huang, Timothy ^c   Marine, Joseph E ^a   Cheng, Alan ^a   Spragg, David D ^a   Sinha, Sunil ^a   Calkins, Hugh ^a   Stein, Kenneth ^b   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^a   Berger, Ronald D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boston Scientific   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Intracardiac electrogram; J point elevation; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; J POINT AMPLITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84866733065     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.06.036     Document Type: Article

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