Cardiac pacing in patients with familial dysautonomia: There is nothing simple about sudden death

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-9

  Bartoletti, Angelo ^a,b  

^a SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 9; DYSAUTONOMIA; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HEART PACING; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE;

ARRHYTHMIA; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DYSAUTONOMIA, FAMILIAL; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 16844386814     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-005-0242-2     Document Type: Editorial

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