Altered values of heart rate variability in patients with relapse of atrial fibrillation during the first week after electrical cardioversion: Preliminary data

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 435-440

  Michelucci, A ^a   Lazzeri, C ^a   Padeletti, L ^a   Bagliani, G ^a   Colella, A ^a   Sabini, A ^a   Zipoli, R ^a   Costoli, A ^a   Pieragnoli, P ^a   Gensini, G F ^a   Franchi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrical cardioversion; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PROPAFENONE; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CALCULATION; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; RELAPSE; SINUS RHYTHM; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERAPY;

AGED; AMIODARONE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPAFENONE; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0034927350     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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