Electrocardiogram of the failing heart

Cardiac Electrophysiology Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-214

  Hombach, Vinzenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

ECG and heart failure; Heart rate variability; Repolarization abnormalities; Signal averaged ECG

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; P WAVE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; T WAVE;

ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 0036753556     PISSN: 13852264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016316706195     Document Type: Article

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