Implantable defibrillator use for de novo ventricular tachyarrhythmias encountered after cardiac surgery

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 951-956

  Telfer, Edward A ^a   Mecca, Andrew ^a   Martini, Mauwia ^a   Olshansky, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036311320     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00951.x     Document Type: Article

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