Risk stratification in patients after myocardial infarction: Value of assessment of cardiac autonomic tone;Stratifizierung der vom plotzlichen Herztod bedrohten Patienten unter besonderer Berucksichtigung des autonomen Nervensystems

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 85, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1996, Pages 35-43

  Hohnloser, S H ^a   Klingenheben, T ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; autonomic tone; baroreflex sensitivity; heart rate variability; risk stratification; sudden death

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH; ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INNERVATION; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR; REVIEW; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRESSORECEPTORS; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; VAGUS NERVE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030341159     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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