Incidence and predictors of mortality following ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-14

  Sauer, William H ^b   Zado, Erica ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a   Callans, David J ^a  

^a Electrophysiology Section   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Mortality; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 72449187449     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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