Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 675-682 , May 2010

Circadian variation of late potentials in idiopathic ventricular fibrillation associated with J waves: Insights into alternative pathophysiology and risk stratification

Received 26 November 2009 ,Accepted 8 January 2010.

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 This manuscript was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid 18300157 and 21590909 for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan and by a grant for Scientific Research from Kyorin University School of Medicine to Dr. Ikeda.

PII: S1547-5271(10)00054-8

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.01.023

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 675-682 , May 2010

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