Relationship between voltage map "channels" and the location of critical isthmus sites in patients with post-infarction cardiomyopathy and ventricular tachycardia

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 61, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 2088-2095

  Mountantonakis, Stavros E ^a,b   Park, Robert E ^a   Frankel, David S ^a   Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Cooper, Joshua ^a   Callans, David ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

channels; mapping; ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRESSLER SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART ISTHMUS; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOLATED LATE POTENTIAL; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84877732729     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.02.031     Document Type: Article

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