Epicardial ventricular tachycardia substrate visualized by magnetic resonance imaging: need for a transpericardial ablation approach?

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 827-837

  Reithmann, Christopher ^a   Herkommer, Bernhard ^a   Fiek, Michael ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epicardial ablation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocarditis; Nonischemic cardiomyopathy; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDO EPICARDIAL ABLATION; ENDOCARDIAL ABLATION; EPICARDIAL ABLATION; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL ACCESS DEVICE; PERICARDITIS; YOUNG ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCARDIUM; FIBROSIS; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART PACING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84974816724     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-016-0990-0     Document Type: Article

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