title: Tissue tracking imaging as a new modality for identifying the origin of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias.
abstract: Tissue tracking imaging was performed in 33 patients with idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias before radiofrequency catheter ablation. The site of the arrhythmia origin, defined as the site where the earliest color-coded signal appeared on the myocardium at the onset of the arrhythmia, corresponded to the site of origin as determined on fluoroscopy during activation mapping in all patients. Catheter ablation at that site abolished the arrhythmia in 29 patients (88%).
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan. tada-h@cvc.pref.gunma.jp
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Toide
authors.forename: Shigeto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurosaki
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyaji
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nogami
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
mesh_terms: D017115:Catheter Ablation; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018879:Ventricular Premature Complexes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery