Relationship between sinus rhythm late activation zones and critical sites for scar-related ventricular tachycardia

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 390-399

  Irie, Tadanobu ^a   Yu, Ricky ^a   Bradfield, Jason S ^a   Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Buch, Eric F ^a   Ajijola, Olujimi ^a   MacIas, Carlos ^a   Fujimura, Osamu ^a   Mandapati, Ravi ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a   Tung, Roderick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation techniques; tachycardia; ventricular

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISOCHRONAL LATE ACTIVATION MAPPING; MALE; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACTION POTENTIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CICATRIX; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; CICATRIX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84932126853     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.114.002637     Document Type: Article

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