Transient sympathovagal imbalance triggers "ischemic" sudden death in patients undergoing electrocardiographic Holter monitoring

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 847-852

  Pozzati, Andrea ^a   Pancaldi, Leonardo G ^a   Di Pasquale, Giuseppe ^b   Pinelli, Giuseppe ^a   Bugiardini, Raffaele ^b  

^a Ospedale di Bentivoglio   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; VAGUS TONE;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0029962814     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(96)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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