Are the MADIT II criteria for ICD implantation appropriate for Japanese patients?

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-22

  Tanno, Kaoru ^a,b   Miyoshi, Fumito ^a   Watanabe, Norikazu ^a   Minoura, Yoshino ^a   Kawamura, Mitsuharu ^a   Ryu, Syunsho ^a   Asano, Taku ^a   Kobayashi, Youichi ^a   Katagiri, Takashi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Left ventricular dysfunction; Myocardial infarction; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 12344268579     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.19     Document Type: Article

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