Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, ventricular tachycardia and complex ventricular arrhythmias in predicting ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac death in elderly patients
Authors:
- Stanley EpsteinSEStanley Epstein
- Mordecai KoenigsbergMKMordecai Koenigsberg
- Kenneth S. SchwartzKSKenneth S. Schwartz
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Cardiology
- Vol. 62 (16) , 1124-1125
Abstract
No abstract availableThis publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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