The impact of the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II in a University Hospital - Do all patients with myocardial infarction and reduced left ventricular function need an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator?;Die auswirkungen nach dem Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II in einem kardiologischen Schwerpunktzentrum - Müssen alle postinfarktpatienten mit reduzierter linksventrikelfunktion einen implantierbaren kardioverter-defibrillator erhalten?

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 115, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 167-174

  Lercher, Peter ^a   Rotman, Brigitte ^a   Scherr, Daniel ^a   Kraxner, Wilfried ^a   Luha, Olef ^a   Klein, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Ischemic cardiomyopathy; Myocardial infarction; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0037475072     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03040304     Document Type: Article

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