Surgical treatment of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias: The role of intraoperative mapping and consideration of the presently available surgical techniques

Electrophysiology of the Heart.

1960 • 1,295 citations

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

1980 • 716 citations

THE NATURE OF FIBRILLARY CONTRACTION OF THE HEART.—ITS RELATION TO TISSUE MASS AND FORM

1914 • 554 citations

Electrophysiology of the heart

1961 • 549 citations

Re-entrant ventricular arrhythmias in the late myocardial infarction period. 1. Conduction characteristics in the infarction zone.

1977 • 515 citations

Endocardial excision: a new surgical technique for the treatment of recurrent ventricular tachycardia.

1979 • 476 citations

Prehospital Ventricular Defibrillation

1974 • 474 citations

Encircling Endocardial Ventriculotomy: A New Surgical Treatment for Life-Threatening Ventricular Tachycardias Resistant to Medical Treatment Following Myocardial Infarction

1978 • 409 citations

Recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. 2. Endocardial mapping.

1978 • 373 citations

Recurrent Ventricular Fibrillation and Modes of Death in Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation

1975 • 336 citations

Ventricular Resection Guided by Epicardial and Endocardial Mapping for Treatment of Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia

1980 • 321 citations

Cardiac Arrhythmias: Electrophysiology, Diagnosis and Management.

1980 • 239 citations

EXCITABILITY OF THE HEART

1957 • 235 citations

Management of ventricular tachycardia—Role of mexiletine

1980 • 223 citations

Epicardial and endocardial activation during sustained ventricular tachycardia in man.

1980 • 204 citations

Surgical Endocardial Resection for the Treatment of Malignant Ventricular Tachycardia

1979 • 173 citations

Polymorphous ventricular tachycardia: Clinical features and treatment

1979 • 151 citations

Cryoablation of drug-resistant ventricular tachycardia in a patient with a variant of scleroderma.

1978 • 147 citations

Cardiac Aneurysm with Ventricular Tachycardia and Subsequent Excision of Aneurysm

1959 • 146 citations

Surgical Treatment of Ventricular Arrhythmias Using Epicardial, Transmural, and Endocardial Mapping

1975 • 140 citations

Comparison of endocardial catheter mapping with intraoperative mapping of ventricular tachycardia.

1980 • 136 citations

Surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardia after epicardial mapping studies.

1975 • 132 citations

The limitations of epicardial mapping as a guide to the surgical therapy of ventricular tachycardia.

1978 • 115 citations

Ventricular aneurysm with ventricular tachycardia

1975 • 99 citations

A computerized method for the rapid display of ventricular activation during the intraoperative study of arrhythmias.

1979 • 86 citations

Life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias induced by exercise

1973 • 81 citations

Comparison of endocardial catheter mapping with intraoperative mapping of ventricular tachycardia.

1980 • 76 citations

Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia Due to Resectable Cardiac Tumor

1974 • 72 citations

Ventricular aneurysm due to cardiac sarcoidosis with surgical cure of refractory ventricular tachycardia

1972 • 69 citations

Surgical treatment of arrhythmias: Current status and future directions

1978 • 66 citations

Ventricular buckling: A factor in the abnormal ventriculogram and peculiar hemodynamics associated with mitral valve prolapse

1977 • 63 citations

Ventricular ectopic activity after medical and surgical treatment for recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia

1980 • 63 citations

The Successful Cryosurgical Treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Tachycardia

1979 • 63 citations

Cardiac arrhythmias in the neonate, infant, and child

1983 • 59 citations

Surgery for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias

1979 • 53 citations

The Sock Electrode Array: A Tool for Determining Global Epicardial Activation during Unstable Arrhythmias

1980 • 53 citations

CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS IN THE NEONATE, INFANT, AND CHILD

1978 • 48 citations

Structural basis of ventricular arrhythmias in human myocardial infarction: A hypothesis

1976 • 45 citations

Advances in the management of arrhythmias

1975 • 44 citations

Electrophysiologic mapping during open heart surgery

1976 • 43 citations

Refractory ventricular arrhythmia: the role of intraoperative electrophysiological study.

1977 • 41 citations

Management of intractable ventricular tachyarrhythmias after myocardial infarction

1979 • 39 citations

New Method to Delineate Myocardial Damage at Surgery

1969 • 37 citations

Medical and Surgical Management of Tachyarrhythmias

1980 • 28 citations

The Use of Ventricular Electrograms in Operation for Coronary Artery Disease and Its Complications

1970 • 28 citations

Effect of surgery on ventricular tachyarrhythmias associated with coronary arterial occlusive disease.

1978 • 24 citations

A computer system for the intraoperative mapping of ventricular arrhythmias

1980 • 23 citations

Coronary revascularization in patients surviving unexpected ventricular fibrillation.

1975 • 17 citations

Is the Reentry Concept a Guide to the Surgical Treatment of Chronic Ventricular Tachycardia?

1980 • 16 citations

Management of Sudden Coronary Death

1977 • 15 citations

Resection of ventricular aneurysm modified by electrophysiologic assessment in patients with intractable ventricular tachycardia and left ventricular aneurysm

1980 • 5 citations