Automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in chagas' heart disease patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 467-470

  Cardinalli Neto, Augusto ^a   Greco, Osvaldo T ^a   Bestetti, Reinaldo B ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE BASE   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American; Arrhythmia; Chagas' cardiomyopathy; Trypanosomiasis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METOPROLOL; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

BRAZIL; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMORBIDITY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33646522680     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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