Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 7 , Pages 1047-1049 , July 2009

“Typical” electrocardiographic left ventricular outflow tract ventricular tachycardia ablated from the right heart side

  • Yoav Michowitz, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Yoav Michowitz, UCLA Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, BH-307 CHS MC:167917, Los Angeles, California 90095
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  • Sami Viskin, MD
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  • Bernard Belhassen, MD

Received 28 December 2008 ,Accepted 22 February 2009.

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PII: S1547-5271(09)00231-8

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.02.039

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 7 , Pages 1047-1049 , July 2009

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