Heart rate dynamics at the onset of ventricular tachyarrhythmias as retrieved from implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in patients with coronary artery disease

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 2398-2404

  Pruvot, Etienne ^a   Thonet, Gilles ^b   Vesin, Jean Marc ^b   Van Melle, Guy ^a   Seidl, Karlheinz ^c   Schmidinger, Herwig ^d   Brachmann, Johannes ^e   Jung, Werner ^f   Hoffmann, Ellen ^g   Tavernier, René ^h   Block, Michael ⁱ   Podczeck, Andrea ^j   Fromer, Martin ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Klinikum der Stadt   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e KLINIKUM COBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^g LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

ⁱ Klinik Augustinum Munchen   (Germany)

^j WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Coronary disease; Fourier analysis; Nervous system, autonomic; Tachyarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLECAINIDE; NITRATE; SOTALOL;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL;

EID: 0034705001     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.20.2398     Document Type: Article

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