Long-term follow-up of older patients with Mobitz type I second degree atrioventricular block

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 334-338

  Coumbe, Ann G ^a,b   Naksuk, Niyada ^a,b   Newell, Marc C ^c   Somasundaram, Porur E ^d   Benditt, David G ^b   Adabag, Selcuk ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cardiac Arrhythmia Center   (United States)

^c MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d St Luke's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; IMPLANTED HEART PACEMAKER; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBITZ TYPE I SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874111434     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302770     Document Type: Article

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