Degenerating regenerating torsades de pointes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Perrin, Mark Jonathan ^a   Gollob, Michael Howard ^a   Birnie, David Hugh ^a   Nery, Pablo Balbuena ^a   Keren, Arieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; electrophysiology clinical; long QT; VT

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; METOPROLOL; ONDANSETRON;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INCISION; MALAISE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; QT INTERVAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TORSADE DES POINTES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TORSADES DE POINTES; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84874778389     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2012.03374.x     Document Type: Article

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