Sudden cardiac death

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 347-355

  John, Roy M ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; AMIODARONE; ANGIOTENSIN ANTAGONIST; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOFETILIDE; DOMPERIDONE; DROPERIDOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLECAINIDE; HALOPERIDOL; IBUTILIDE; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESORIDAZINE; PENTAMIDINE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPAFENONE; QUINIDINE; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL; SOTALOL; SPARFLOXACIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; TROPONIN T; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BRADYCARDIA; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CELL JUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATION; GANGLIONECTOMY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HEART ARREST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INHERITANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG QT SYNDROME; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SARCOMERE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 5444230642     PISSN: 10928464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11936-004-0018-3     Document Type: Review

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