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Sentinel symptoms in patients with unexplained cardiac arrest: from the cardiac arrest survivors with preserved ejection fraction registry (CASPER).
Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology - 1 Jan 2012
Krahn Andrew D, Healey Jeffrey S, Simpson Christopher S, Chauhan Vijay S, Birnie David H, Champagne Jean, Gardner Martin, Sanatani Shubhayan, Chakrabarti Santabhanu, Yee Raymond, Skanes Allan C, Leong-Sit Peter, Ahmad Kamran, Gollob Michael H, Klein George J, Gula Lorne J, Sheldon Robert S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Warning symptoms may provide an opportunity to diagnose genetic disorders leading to preventative therapy. We explored the symptom history of patients with apparently unexplained cardiac arrest to determine the frequency of sentinel symptoms. METHODS: Patients with apparently unexplained cardiac arrest and no evident cardiac disease underwent systematic clinical evaluation. Patients and first-degree...
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