Bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation: Why, who and when?

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 947-949

  Ajijola, Olujimi A ^a,b   Vaseghi, Marmar ^a,b   Mahajan, Aman ^a,b   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress   (United States)

Author keywords

bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation; left cardiac sympathetic denervation; sudden cardiac death; sympathetic nervous system; ventricular arrhythmias; ventricular fibrillation; ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CATHETER ABLATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFERENT NERVE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DENERVATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; SYMPATHECTOMY;

EID: 84867083544     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.12.93     Document Type: Review

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