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. 2012 Jan 3;59(1):91-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.09.043.

Bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation for the management of electrical storm

Olujimi A Ajijola, Nicholas Lellouche, Tara Bourke, Roderick Tung, Samuel Ahn, Aman Mahajan, Kalyanam Shivkumar

Bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation for the management of electrical storm

Olujimi A Ajijola et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. .
No abstract available

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Figure 1
The acute improvement in therapies per day (number of therapies/number of days) before and after bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation are shown. Therapies included antitachycardia pacing episodes and automated or external defibrillation.
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