Clinical relevance of heart rate variability changes after heart transplantation

Clinical Science

Volumn 91, Issue S1, 1996, Pages 146-150

  Frey, A W ^a   Dambacher, M ^a   Uberfuhr P ^b   Reichart, B ^b   Ziegler, S ^c   Roskamm, H ^a   Schwaiger, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING RATE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; RESPIRATORY SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SPECTROMETRY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART RATE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; POWER SPECTRUM; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029901535     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: 14708736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0910146supp     Document Type: Article

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