Successful use of a wearable cardioverter-defibrillator in myocarditis with normal ejection fraction

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-131

  Prochnau, Dirk ^a   Surber, Ralf ^a   Kuehnert, Helmut ^a   Heinke, Matthias ^a   Klein, Helmut U ^b   Figulla, Hans R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; TROPONIN I; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMPLANT; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESUSCITATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUDDEN DEATH; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ADULT; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950865694     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-009-0093-2     Document Type: Letter

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