American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 104, Issue 2 , Pages 158-163 , 15 July 2009

Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients With Silent Myocardial Ischemia After Myocardial Infarction (from the Swiss Interventional Study on Silent Ischemia Type II [SWISSI II])

  • Andreas Wolfgang Schoenenberger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics and Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Bern Hospital Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Richard Kobza, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Peiman Jamshidi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Michel Zuber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Antonio Abbate, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
    • ,
  • Andreas Ernst Stuck, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics and Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Bern Hospital Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Matthias Pfisterer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Paul Erne, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Tel: +41-41-2055208; fax: +41-41-2055109

Received 12 January 2009 ,Revised 8 March 2009 ,Accepted 8 March 2009.

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 The Swiss Interventional Study on Silent Ischemia Type II was funded by a grant from the von Muralt Stiftung/Swiss Heart Foundation, Berne, Switzerland, and supported by unrestricted grants from Hoechst Pharma, Merck Pharma, and Pfizer, all in Switzerland. Andreas Schoenenberger, MD, was supported by a Forschungskolleg Geriatrie Grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany. None of the granting institutions had any influence on the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation. All authors have disclosed all associations (either commercial or industrial) that might pose a conflict of interest.

PII: S0002-9149(09)00723-1

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.03.019

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 104, Issue 2 , Pages 158-163 , 15 July 2009

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