Editorial: Defibrillation threshold testing at implantation: Can we predict the patient with a high defibrillation threshold?

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-310

  Theuns, Dominic A M J ^a   Gold, Michael R ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLE; CALIBRATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CALIBRATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 77749324868     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq003     Document Type: Editorial

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