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The Effects of High-Energy DC Shocks Delivered to Ventricular Myocardium

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Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 78))

Abstract

Endocardial catheter fulguration is a new method for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias which has been used to interrupt the AV conduction system, to prevent rapid ventricular rates originating in the atrium. It could also be applied to atrial or ventricular myocardium to directly modify the arrhyth-mogenic substrate. Clinical successes obtained with this technique have spurred its clinical applications before systematic studies of the equipment [1–4], physics [5–13], and its biological consequences have been sufficiently investigated in the animal laboratory [14–25]. The present work reports the canine experiments performed in the Laboratoire de Chirurgie Experimentale of Pr. C. Cabrol’s group at Hospitalo-Universitaire Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris between April 1982 and March 1984 [18].

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Fontaine, G. (1988). The Effects of High-Energy DC Shocks Delivered to Ventricular Myocardium. In: Scheinman, M.M. (eds) Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1765-4_5

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