Early benefit of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in patients waiting for cardiac transplantation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1747-1750

  Lorga Filho, Adalberto ^a   Geelen, Peter ^a   Vanderheyden, Marc ^a   Malacky, Tibor ^a   Primo, Joao ^a   Goethals, Marc ^a   Wellens, Francis ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Sudden death; Ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0031669668     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00274.x     Document Type: Article

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