Temporal relationship of implantable cardioverter defibrillator discharges and environmental physical activity

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 777-781

  Stoupel, Eliyah ^a   Kusniec, Jairo ^b   Mazur, Alexander ^b   Zabarsky, Ronit ^b   Golovchiner, Gregory ^b   Abramson, Evgeny ^a   Strasberg, Boris ^b   Battler, Alexander ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Beilinson Campus ^*

Author keywords

Discharges; Fibrillation; Geomagnetic activity; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Sudden death; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27844502612     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00187_2.x     Document Type: Article

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