Beneficial effect of amiodarone on cardiac mortality in patients with asymptomatic complex ventricular arrhythmias after acute myocardial infarction and preserved but not impaired left ventricular function
Authors:
- Wolfgang KiowskiWKWolfgang Kiowski
- Dieter BurckhardtDBDieter Burckhardt
- Ferenc FollathFFFerenc Follath
- Felix BurkartFBFelix Burkart
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Cardiology
- Vol. 69 (17) , 1399-1402
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