Value of programmed ventricular stimulation in predicting sudden death and sustained ventricular tachycardia in survivors of acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 673-680

  Zoni Berisso, Massimo ^a   Molini, Daniele ^b   Mela, Giuseppe Sandro ^b   Vecchio, Carlo ^b  

^a GALLIERA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIGITALIS; DIURETIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PROPAFENONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0029929329     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)89198-9     Document Type: Article

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