Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic heart disease

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 992-1000

  Tokuda, Michifumi ^a   Tedrow, Usha B ^a   Kojodjojo, Pipin ^a   Inada, Keiichi ^a   Koplan, Bruce A ^a   Michaud, Gregory F ^a   John, Roy M ^a   Epstein, Laurence M ^a   Stevenson, William G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Catheter ablation; Morbidity; Mortality; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOCARDIAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872005694     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.112.971341     Document Type: Article

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