Determinants of prognosis in symptomatic ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation late after myocardial infarction. The Dutch Ventricular Tachycardia Study Group of the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of The Netherlands.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on September 01, 1990

Authors

A R Willems1, J G Tijssen, F J van Capelle, J H Kingma, R N Hauer, F E Vermeulen, P Brugada, D C van Hoogenhuyze, M J Janse

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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