The usefulness of holter monitoring in selecting pharmacologic therapy for patients with sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: Studies in patients in whom no effective pharmacologic therapy could be determined by electrophysiologic study

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 347-352

  Niwano, Shinichi ^a   Furushima, Hiroshi ^a   Taneda, Koji ^a   Abe, Akira ^a   Ohira, Koji ^a   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmic drug; Electrophysiologic study; Holter monitoring; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

VERAPAMIL;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0031978577     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.347     Document Type: Article

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