Risk of malignant arrhythmias in initially symptomatic patients with wolff-parkinson-white syndrome: Results of a prospective long-term electrophysiological follow-up study

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 661-668

  Pappone, Carlo ^a   Vicedomini, Gabriele ^a   Manguso, Francesco ^a   Baldi, Mario ^a   Pappone, Alessia ^a   Petretta, Andrea ^a   Vitale, Raffaele ^a   Saviano, Massimo ^a   Ciaccio, Cristiano ^a   Giannelli, Luigi ^a   Calovic, Zarko ^a   Tavazzi, Luigi ^a   Santinelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a MARIA CECILIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

death, sudden; risk factors; ventricular fibrillation; Wolff Parkinson White syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT ARRHYTHMIA; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SYNCOPE; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ACCESSORY ATRIOVENTRICULAR BUNDLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856899997     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.065722     Document Type: Article

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