Secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death in coronary artery spasm: Is implantable cardioverter defibrillator always efficient?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-143

  Letsas, Konstantinos P ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos S ^a   Efremidis, Michalis ^a   Sideris, Antonios ^a   Kardaras, Fotios ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery spasm; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Sudden cardiac death; Variant angina; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; NITRATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947151425     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.06.055     Document Type: Article

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