Incidence and Clinical Significance of Multiple Consecutive, Appropriate, High-Energy Discharges in Patients With Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- 15 February 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 93 (4) , 753-762
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.93.4.753
Abstract
Background Some patients with an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) suffer multiple appropriate, consecutive, high-energy discharges (MCDs) during follow-up. Such events might r...Keywords
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