Decrease of cardiac chaos in congestive heart failure

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6650, 1997, Pages 492-495

  Poon, Chi Sang ^a   Merrill, Christopher K ^a  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART BEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030823340     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39043     Document Type: Article

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