A novel pacing method to suppress repolarization alternans in vivo: Implications for arrhythmia prevention

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 564-572

  Armoundas, Antonis A ^a,b   Weiss, Eric H ^a   Sayadi, Omid ^b   Laferriere, Shawna ^b   Sajja, Naveen ^b   Mela, Theofanie ^b   Singh, Jagmeet P ^b   Barrett, Conor D ^b   Kevin Heist, E ^b   Merchant, Faisal M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacing; Heart failure; Repolarization alternans; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular tachycardia ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART REPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; REPOLARIZATION ALTERNANS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; T WAVE;

ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84875742069     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.12.026     Document Type: Article

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