A clinical approach to early repolarization

Circulation

Volumn 127, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1620-1629

  Obeyesekere, Manoj N ^a   Klein, George J ^b   Nattel, Stanley ^c   Leong Sit, Peter ^b   Gula, Lorne J ^b   Skanes, Allan C ^b   Yee, Raymond ^b   Krahn, Andrew D ^d  

^a EPWORTH HEALTHCARE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Electrocardiography; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE; QUINIDINE;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY REPOLARIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FAMILY HISTORY; GENDER; GENE MUTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPOLARIZATION; REVIEW;

EID: 84876255330     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.143149     Document Type: Review

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