Sudden cardiac death after myocardial infarction

Neal A Chatterjee^{1

2}, Wayne C Levy²

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¹ Electrophysiology Section, UW Medicine Heart Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Heart Failure Section, Cardiology Division, UW Medicine Heart Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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Neal A Chatterjee et al. Eur J Heart Fail. 2020 May.

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doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1744. Epub 2020 Jan 23.

Neal A Chatterjee^{1

2}, Wayne C Levy²

¹ Electrophysiology Section, UW Medicine Heart Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Heart Failure Section, Cardiology Division, UW Medicine Heart Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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Predictors of sudden cardiac death in high-risk patients following a myocardial infarction.
Docherty KF, Ferreira JP, Sharma A, Girerd N, Gregson J, Duarte K, Petrie MC, Jhund PS, Dickstein K, Pfeffer MA, Pitt B, Rossignol P, Zannad F, McMurray JJV. Docherty KF, et al. Eur J Heart Fail. 2020 May;22(5):848-855. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1694. Epub 2020 Jan 16. Eur J Heart Fail. 2020. PMID: 31944496

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