Unexplained sudden cardiac death-back to clinical evaluation

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 678-679

  Priori, Silvia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTOPSY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 73949125301     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2009.174     Document Type: Short Survey

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