High-density substrate-guided ventricular tachycardia ablation: Role of activation mapping in an attempt to improve procedural effectiveness

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1850-1858

  Carbucicchio, Corrado ^a   Ahmad Raja, Nadeem ^a   Di Biase, Luigi ^b,c,d   Volpe, Valeria ^a   Dello Russo, Antonio ^a   Trivedi, Chintan ^b   Bartoletti, Stefano ^a   Zucchetti, Martina ^a   Casella, Michela ^a   Russo, Eleonora ^a   Santangeli, Pasquale ^b   Moltrasio, Massimo ^a   Tundo, Fabrizio ^a   Fassini, Gaetano ^a   Natale, Andrea ^b   Tondo, Claudio ^a  

^a CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO   (Italy)

^b TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Electroanatomical mapping; Ischemic heart disease; Nonischemic cardiomyopathy; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE MARKER; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENCE RISK; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ACTIVATION MAPPING; AMAP; CATHETER ABLATION; EAM; EGM; ELECTROANATOMICAL MAPPING; ELECTROGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EP; ICD; ICM; IDCM; IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT VENTRICLE/VENTRICULAR; LV; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PES; PROGRAMMED ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RF; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; RV; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VT;

AGED; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84889781070     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.09.059     Document Type: Article

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