Expanding the limits of epicardial mapping for ablation of ventricular tachycardia - The times they are a-changin'

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 170-171

  Deneke, Thomas ^a   Mügge, Andreas ^b  

^a Heart Center Bad Neustadt   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDITIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84873588011     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.040     Document Type: Editorial

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