Relationship of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias to outcomes in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention with varying underlying baseline risk

American Heart Journal

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 782-789

  Mehta, Rajendra H ^a   Starr, Aijing Z ^a   Lopes, Renato D ^a   Piccini, Jonathan P ^a   Patel, Manesh R ^a   Pieper, Karen S ^a   Armstrong, Paul W ^b   Granger, Christopher B ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 79953725107     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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