Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy improves long-term survival in patients with unexplained syncope, cardiomyopathy, and a negative electrophysiologic study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 367-373

  Sánchez, José Mauricio ^a   Katsiyiannis, William T ^a   Gage, Brian F ^a   Chen, Jane ^a   Faddis, Mitchell N ^a   Gleva, Marye J ^a   Smith, Timothy W ^a   Lindsay, Bruce D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiomyopathy; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Long term outcome; Negative electrophysiologic study; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; SYNCOPE;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 15944381592     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.12.023     Document Type: Article

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