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Pathogenesis of sudden unexpected death in a clinical trial of patients with myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction, heart failure, or both.

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Pouleur, Anne-Catherine [UCL] Barkoudah, Ebrahim Uno, Hajime Skali, Hicham Finn, Peter V Solomon, Scott D

The frequency of sudden unexpected death is highest in the early post-myocardial infarction (MI) period; nevertheless, 2 recent trials showed no improvement in mortality with early placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator after MI.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2010
Language Anglais
Journal information "Circulation" - Vol. 122, no. 6, p. 597-602 (2010)
Peer reviewed yes
e-issn 1524-4539
issn 0009-7322
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSS/IREC/CARD - Pôle de recherche cardiovasculaire
UCL - (SLuc) Service de cardiologie
MESH Subject Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Time Factors ; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - complications, mortality, physiopathology ; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - epidemiology, etiology ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Heart Failure - complications, mortality, physiopathology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Myocardial Infarction - complications, mortality, physiopathology
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Bibliographic reference Pouleur, Anne-Catherine ; Barkoudah, Ebrahim ; Uno, Hajime ; Skali, Hicham ; Finn, Peter V ; et. al. Pathogenesis of sudden unexpected death in a clinical trial of patients with myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction, heart failure, or both.. In: Circulation, Vol. 122, no. 6, p. 597-602 (2010)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/104204