Heart rate variability after cardiac transplantation in humans

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 12 I, 1996, Pages 2112-2199

  Ramaekers, Dirk ^a   Ector, Hugo ^a   Vanhaecke, Johan ^a   Van Cleemput, Johan ^a   Van De Werf, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambulatory electrocardiogram; Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate variability; Heart transplantation; Reinnervation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; REINNERVATION;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030464227     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03286.x     Document Type: Article

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