Appropriate management of syncope in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Rationale behind long-term cardiac rhythm monitoring

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-146

  Arkolaki, Eva G ^a   Simantirakis, Emmanuel N ^a   Chrysostomakis, Stavros I ^a   Vardas, Panos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Device; Monitoring; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYNCOPE;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65949091594     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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