Heart Rhythm
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 605-608 , April 2008

Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) of a univentricular heart with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

  • Subham Ghosh, MS

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), Washington University, St Louis, MO
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
    • The first two authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Jennifer N. Avari, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine/St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
    • The first two authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Edward K. Rhee, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • Eller Congenital Heart Center, Heart Lung Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
    • Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine/St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
    • Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), Washington University, St Louis, MO
    • ,
  • Pamela K. Woodard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO.
    • Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), Washington University, St Louis, MO
    • ,
  • Yoram Rudy, PhD, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), Washington University, St Louis, MO
    • Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine/St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
    • Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO.
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., Cardiac Bioelectricity Center, 290 Whitaker Hall, Campus Box 1097, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130-4899.

Received 23 October 2007 ,Accepted 14 December 2007.

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 The study was supported by Merit Award R37-HL-33343 and Grant R01-HL-49054 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to Y. Rudy. Dr. Rudy is the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.Disclosures: Y. R. chairs the scientific advisory board and holds equity in CardioInsight Technologies (CIT). CIT does not support any research conducted by Y.R., including that presented here.

PII: S1547-5271(07)01251-9

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.12.018

Heart Rhythm
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 605-608 , April 2008

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