Psychologic Stress and Threshold for Repetitive Ventricular Response
SciencePublished 23 November 1973
Bernard Lown, Richard L. Verrier, Ramón Corbalán
Citations224
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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A psychologically stressful environment reduced the threshold of the dog's ventricle for repetitive response, which indicates the presence of electrical instability and a predisposition to ventricular fibrillation, the mechanism of sudden death.
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A psychologically stressful environment reduced the threshold of the dog's ventricle for repetitive response. Elicitation of such a response indicates the presence of electrical instability and a predisposition to ventricular fibrillation, the mechanism of sudden death.
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