Increased incidence of tachyarrhythmias and heart failure hospitalization in patients with implanted cardiac devices after the great East Japan Earthquake disaster

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1283-1285

  Nakano, Makoto ^a   Kondo, Masateru ^a   Wakayama, Yuji ^a   Kawana, Akiko ^a   Hasebe, Yuhi ^a   Shafee, Mohamed Abdel ^a   Fukuda, Koji ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Cardiac implantable devices; Heart failure; The Great East Japan Earthquake

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; EARTHQUAKE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JAPAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TACHYCARDIA;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 84860175459     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0261     Document Type: Article

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