The surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardias. Simple aneurysmectomy versus electrophysiologically guided procedures.

Recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. 1. Mechanisms.

1978 • 643 citations

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

1979 • 476 citations

Continuous local electrical activity. A mechanism of recurrent ventricular tachycardia.

1978 • 424 citations

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

1978 • 409 citations

Hemodynamic determinants of prognosis of aortic valve replacement in critical aortic stenosis and advanced congestive heart failure.

1980 • 404 citations

Recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. 2. Endocardial mapping.

1978 • 373 citations

Electrophysiologic mapping to determine the mechanism of experimental ventricular tachycardia initiated by premature impulses

1982 • 334 citations

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

1980 • 321 citations

Value and limitations of programmed electrical stimulation of the heart in the study and treatment of tachycardias.

1978 • 302 citations

Non-invasive detection of late potentials in man–a new marker for ventricular tachycardia*

1981 • 269 citations

Epicardial and intramural excitation in chronic myocardial infarction

1964 • 227 citations

Epicardial and endocardial activation during sustained ventricular tachycardia in man.

1980 • 204 citations

Techniques of intraoperative electrophysiologic mapping

1982 • 165 citations

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

1978 • 147 citations

Surgical management of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in patients with coronary artery disease.

1977 • 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

Aneurysms of the Left Ventricle

1973 • 136 citations

Comparison of standard aneurysmectomy and aneurysmectomy with directed endocardial resection for the treatment of recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia

1980 • 136 citations

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

1978 • 115 citations

Cryothermal mapping and cryoablation in the treatment of refractory cardiac arrhythmias.

1980 • 107 citations

Ventricular aneurysm with ventricular tachycardia

1975 • 99 citations

Rationale for a direct surgical approach to control ventricular arrhythmias

1982 • 99 citations

Hemodynamic Sequelae of Cardiac Arrhythmias

1973 • 95 citations

Re-entrant ventricular arrhythmias in the late myocardial infarction period. 3. Manifest and concealed extrasystolic grouping.

1977 • 92 citations

The electrocardiogram in normal and some abnormal conditions

1961 • 90 citations

Medical treatment of ventricular tachycardia: Considerations in the selection of patients for surgical treatment

1982 • 85 citations

Ventricular aneurysmectomy for the treatment of recurrent ventricular tachyarrhythmia

1971 • 78 citations

Effects of antiarrhythmic surgery on late ventricular potentials recorded by precordial signal averaging in patients with ventricular tachycardia

1982 • 77 citations

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

1981 • 75 citations

Ventricular aneurysmectomy for recurrent tachycardia.

1969 • 74 citations

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

1972 • 69 citations

Surgical management of ventricular tachycardia unrelated to myocardial ischemia or infarction

1982 • 69 citations

Long term follow-up of aneurysmectomy for recurrent ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation

1978 • 67 citations

Surgical Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia Guided by Ventricular Mapping in 23 Patients Without Coronary Artery Disease

1981 • 67 citations

Surgical treatment of arrhythmias: Current status and future directions

1978 • 66 citations

Relative efficacy of blind left ventricular aneurysm resection for the treatment of recurrent ventricular tachycardia

1982 • 63 citations

The Successful Cryosurgical Treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Tachycardia

1979 • 63 citations

Resection of Postmyocardial Infarction Ventricular Aneurysms for Cardiac Arrhythmias

1969 • 60 citations

Surgical treatment of ventricular irritability

1973 • 59 citations

Surgical treatment of refractory life-threatening ventricular tachycardia

1973 • 59 citations

Left Ventricular Aneurysm of Uncertain Etiology with Recurrent Ventricular Arrhythmias

1971 • 58 citations

Epicardial mapping of the onset of ventricular tachycardia initiated by programmed stimulation in the canine heart with chronic infarction.

1979 • 56 citations

The Surgical Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia

1980 • 49 citations

Aneurysmectomy in treatment of ventricular and supraventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with postinfarction and traumatic ventricular aneurysms

1973 • 45 citations

Localization of Ventricular Irritability by Epicardial Mapping

1972 • 45 citations

Serial electrophysiological testing of antiarrhythmic drug efficacy in patients with recurrent ventricular tachycardia

1980 • 45 citations

Refractory ventricular arrhythmia: the role of intraoperative electrophysiological study.

1977 • 41 citations

Dyskinesia and aneurysm of the left ventricle. Surgical experience in 36 patients.

1971 • 36 citations

Mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia: Wide, complex ignorance

1981 • 34 citations

Ventricular aneurysmectomy for severe rhythm disturbances

1971 • 32 citations

Surgery for Ventricular Tachycardia Unresponsive to Medical Treatment

1973 • 30 citations

Aneurysmectomy for recurrent ventricular tachyarrhythmias

1973 • 30 citations

Intraoperative Electrophysiologic Mapping during Cardiac Surgery

1979 • 28 citations

Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia Successfully Treated by Excision of Ventricular Aneurysm

1972 • 27 citations

Aneurysms of the left ventricle.

1972 • 24 citations

Diagnosis and treatment of a case of recurrent ventricular tachycardia

1972 • 16 citations

Medically uncontrollable recurrent ventricular tachyarrhythmia in association with ventricular aneurysm

1974 • 13 citations

Direct Surgical Therapy of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Coronary Heart Disease

1981 • 12 citations

Ventricular Aneurysmectomy for Recurrent Tachyarrhythmias

1974 • 9 citations

Introduction and perspective

1982 • 8 citations

Reentry versus automaticity: Role in tachyarrhythmia genesis and antiarrhythmic therapy

1981 • 8 citations

[Incidence of ventricular arrhythmias after aneurysmectomy (author's transl)].

1979 • 8 citations

Visually Directed Versus Electrically Directed Endocardial Resection in Recurrent Ventricular-Tachycardia

1980 • 7 citations

[Electrophysiological mapping during open-heart surgery (author's transl)].

1979 • 5 citations

[Response of ventricular late potentials after surgical therapy of ventricular tachycardia].

1982 • 4 citations

Horizons in Electrical Surgery

1981 • 3 citations