Sudden cardiac death after coronary artery bypass grafting is not predicted by signal-averaged ECG

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1546-1551

  Scharf, Christoph ^a   Redecker, Hermann ^a   Duru, Firat ^a   Candinas, Reto ^a   Brunner La Rocca, Hans Peter ^a   Gerber, Andreas ^b   Bertel, Osmund ^b   Turina, Marko I ^a   Kiowski, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Division of Cardiology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035158247     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03180-0     Document Type: Article

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