Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator detection of repolarization alternans: Uncovering a marker of electrical instability

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 798-799

  Christini, David J ^a   Lerman, Bruce B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETER; HEART DEATH; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; T WAVE AMPLITUDE;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 33745488006     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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