The efficacy of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in heart transplant recipients: Results from a multicenter registry

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-201

  Tsai, Vivian W ^a,h   Cooper, Joshua ^b   Garan, Hasan ^c   Natale, Andrea ^g   Ptaszek, Leon M ^d   Ellinor, Patrick T ^d,e   Hickey, Kathleen ^c   Downey, Ross ^f   Zei, Paul ^a   Hsia, Henry ^a   Wang, Paul ^a   Hunt, Sharon ^a   Haddad, François ^a   Al Ahmad, Amin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Division of Cardiology

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h CVRC   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Orthotopic heart transplant; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART GRAFT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 67650897516     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.108.814525     Document Type: Article

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