Intramural Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia in a Patient with Severe Hypertensive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy |
Lin, Chin-Yu
(Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital)
Chung, Fa-Po (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital) Lin, Yenn-Jiang (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital) Chen, Shih-Ann (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital) |
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