Five-year experience with implantation and follow-up of transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Placing postimplant defibrillation threshold testing in perspective

Military Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 500-504

  Roman Gonzalez, J ^a   Shapiro, M L ^a   Rubal, B J ^a   Bulgrin, J R ^a   Muse, R J ^a  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0034970136     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/166.6.500     Document Type: Article

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