Increased incidence of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in implantable defibrillator patients after the World Trade Center attack

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1261-1264

  Steinberg, Jonathan S ^a,b   Arshad, Aysha ^a   Kowalski, Marcin ^a   Kukar, Atul ^a   Suma, Valentin ^a   Vloka, Margot ^a,b   Ehlert, Frederick ^a,b   Herweg, Bengt ^a,b   Donnelly, Jacqueline ^a   Philip, Julie ^a   Reed, George ^c   Rozanski, Alan ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE COURSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TACHYCARDIA; TERRORISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; CORONARY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TERRORISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 4444381960     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.06.032     Document Type: Article

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