Ventricular tachycardia during follow-up in patients resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation: Experience from stored electrograms of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1724-1730

  Rüppel, Rudolf ^a   Schlüter, Catarina A ^a   Boczor, Sigrid ^b   Meinertz, Thomas ^a   Schlüter, Michael ^b   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^b   Cappato, Riccardo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c II Medizinische Abteilung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RESUSCITATION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 18844472418     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00430-6     Document Type: Article

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