Application of ripple mapping to visualize slow conduction channels within the infarct-related left ventricular scar

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-86

  Jamil Copley, Shahnaz ^a   Vergara, Pasquale ^b   Carbucicchio, Corrado ^c   Linton, Nick ^a   Koa Wing, Michael ^a   Luther, Vishal ^a   Francis, Darrel P ^a   Peters, Nicholas S ^a   Davies, David Wyn ^a   Tondo, Claudio ^c   Bella, Paolo Della ^b   Kanagaratnam, Prapa ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

myocardial ischemia; tachycardia, ventricular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ISCHEMIC SCAR; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RIPPLE MAPPING; RIPPLE MAPPING CONDUCTION CHANNEL; SINUS RHYTHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY; ACTION POTENTIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CICATRIX; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CICATRIX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84923887130     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.114.001827     Document Type: Article

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