Expanding indications for implantable cardiac defibrillators

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 346, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 931-933

  Bigger, J Thomas ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ARRHYTHMIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037149720     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe020011     Document Type: Editorial

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