Are the benefits of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) overestimated by sudden death rate?
- 30 June 1991
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Vol. 17 (7) , 1593-1594
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0735-1097(91)90653-q
Abstract
No abstract availableThis publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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