Pleomorphic ventricular tachycardia and risk for sudden cardiac death

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-4

  Liu, Emerson ^a   Josephson, Mark E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PLEOMORPHIC VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 79953798186     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.960443     Document Type: Review

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