Persistent electrical scar in the atrium evaluated on voltage mapping with a CARTO system in suspected acute myocarditis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2895-2897

  Ito, Shigenori ^a   Kamegai, Akiyo ^a   Murakami, Yoshimasa ^a   Nakasuka, Kosuke ^a   Sekimoto, Satoru ^a   Miyata, Kazuyuki ^a   Inomata, Masahiko ^a   Yoshida, Takayuki ^a   Tamai, Nozomu ^a   Saeki, Tomoaki ^a   Suzuki, Shin ^a   Sato, Koichi ^a   Morino, Akihiro ^a   Shimizu, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a Nagoya City University East Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ISOPRENALINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SIVELESTAT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NAUSEA; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PNEUMONIA; SINUS ARREST; THORAX PAIN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ACUTE DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SINUS ARREST, CARDIAC; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84870530163     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0475     Document Type: Article

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