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Octo- and nonagenarians’ outlook on life and death when living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Elderly individuals are increasingly represented among patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), but data describing life with an ICD are scarse among octo- and nonagenarians. Moreover, few studies have reported those elderly patients’ perspective on timly discussions...
Autores principales: | Thylén, Ingela, Moser, Debra K., Strömberg, Anna |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30342484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0942-9 |
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