ST-segment deviation following implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks: Incidence, timing, and clinical significance

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1429-1432

  Gurevitz, Osnat ^a   Lipchenca, Igor ^a   Yaacoby, Elad ^a   Segal, Eran ^b   Perel, Azriel ^b   Eldar, Michael ^a   Glikson, Michael ^a  

^a Heart Institute and Departments of Anesthesiology   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electric countershock; Electrocardiology; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; ST segment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036802475     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01429.x     Document Type: Article

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