Programmed stimulation for risk stratification for postinfarction sudden cardiac arrest: Why and how?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 791-794

  Josephson, Mark E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INCIDENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGRAMMED ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; QT DISPERSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART FUNCTION TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84903984763     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pace.12412     Document Type: Review

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