Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 251-259 , February 2009

Heart failure enhances susceptibility to arrhythmogenic cardiac alternans

Presented in part at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 26th, 2004.

Received 8 August 2008 ,Accepted 5 November 2008.

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 This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant RO1-HL54807 (D.R.) and a Career Development Grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation (L.W.).

PII: S1547-5271(08)01091-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.11.008

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 251-259 , February 2009

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