Early Sustained Ventricular Arrhythmias Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction**The views expressed are those of the authors and may not reflect those of the New York State Department of Health or the Cardiac Advisory Committee.

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 797-804

  Piccini, Jonathan P ^a   Berger, Jeffrey S ^a   Brown, David L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW YORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 49849105724     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2008.04.024     Document Type: Article

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