Sudden cardiac death after heart failure; symptomatic versus disease treatment? An editorial comment

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-351

  Buckberg, Gerald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 19444371101     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-005-7032-8     Document Type: Article

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