Clinical predictors of transvenous biphasic defibrillation thresholds

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1623-1627

  Gold, Michael R ^a   Khalighi, Koroush ^a   Kavesh, Neal G ^a   Daly, Barry ^a   Peters, Robert W ^a   Shorofsky, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CORONARY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030795315     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00210-5     Document Type: Article

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