Dynamics of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 49 (8) , 40-45
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881510
Abstract
An elderly gentleman with heart disease was admitted to hospital for treatment of an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular tachycardia. This potentially fatal rhythm can occur days, or even years, after a heart attack. It is associated with an abnormally rapid heartbeat that arises from tissue in the heart attack-damaged portions of the ventricles—the two main pumping chambers of the heart. (See the box on page 41.)This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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