Inadvertently Developed Ventricular Fibrillation during Electrophysiologic Study and Catheter Ablation: Incidence, Cause, and Prognosis |
Park, Yae Min
(Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine)
Lee, Hyun Soo (Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine) Lim, Ra Seung (Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine) Choi, Jong-Il (Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine) Lim, Hong Euy (Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine) Park, Sang Weon (Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine) Choi, In Suck (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University) Kim, Young-Hoon (Division of Cardiology, Korea University College of Medicine) |
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