Tachycardia in post-infarction hearts: insights from 3D image-based ventricular models.

Ventricular tachycardia, a life-threatening regular and repetitive fast heart rhythm, frequently occurs in the setting of myocardial infarction. Recently, the peri-infarct zones surrounding the necrotic scar (termed gray zones) have been shown to correlate with ventricular tachycardia inducibility....

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Main Authors: Hermenegild Arevalo, Gernot Plank, Patrick Helm, Henry Halperin, Natalia Trayanova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3699514?pdf=render