The values of defibrillation testing at implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation: 'And then there were none'

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-12

  Gasparini, Maurizio ^a   Galimberti, Paola ^a   Ceriotti, Carlo ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

cardiac resynchronization therapy; defibrillation testing; implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA STENOSIS; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE SAFETY; ELECTROCUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DEATH; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; REVIEW; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 83055178809     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: 15317080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e32834dc366     Document Type: Review

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