Sleep disordered breathing is associated with appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in congestive heart failure patients

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Tomaello, Luca ^a   Zanolla, Luisa ^a   Vassanelli, Corrado ^a   LoCascio, Vincenzo ^a   Ferrari, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

AGED; ANOXIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77649262591     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20602     Document Type: Article

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