Impact of local ablation on interconnected channels within ventricular scar mechanistic implications for substrate modification

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1131-1138

  Tung, Roderick ^a   Mathuria, Nilesh S ^b,c   Nagel, Rich ^a   Mandapati, Ravi ^a   Buch, Eric F ^a   Bradfield, Jason S ^a   Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Tachycardia; Ventricular

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LATE POTENTIAL; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

EID: 84892165783     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000867     Document Type: Article

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