Empty handed: A call for an international registry of risk stratification to reduce the 'sudden-ness' of death in patients with non-compaction cardiomyopathy

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1138-1139

  Caliskan, Kadir ^a   Kardos, Attila ^a   Szili Torok, Tamas ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; NONCOMPACTION CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70349448286     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup228     Document Type: Editorial

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