Survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with apparently normal heart: Need for definition and standardized clinical evaluation

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 265-272

  Priori, Silvia G ^a,b  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; death, sudden; diagnosis; fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ARREST; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031014792     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.1.265     Document Type: Article

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