Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation;Les fibrillations ventriculaires idiopathiques

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 92, Issue SPEC. ISS. 1, 1999, Pages 29-36

  Chevalier, P ^a   Touboul, P ^a  

^a LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LONG QT SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TORSADE DES POINTES;

ADULT; CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TORSADES DE POINTES; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0032906789     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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