Mental Stress and Ventricular Arrhythmias

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Lampert, Rachel ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Mental stress; Sudden death; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ANGER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENERVATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HAPPINESS; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SYMPATHETIC DENERVATION; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EMOTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 84993933883     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-016-0798-6     Document Type: Review

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