Haemodialysis increases QTc interval but not QTc dispersion in ESRD patients without manifest cardiac disease

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2170-2177

  Covic, Adrian ^a   Diaconita, Mirela ^a   Gusbeth Tatomir, Paul ^a   Covic, Maria ^a   Botezan, Adrian ^a   Ungureanu, Gabriel ^a   Goldsmith, David J ^b  

^a CI Parhon Hospital   (Romania)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Electrolytes; End stage renal disease; Haemodialysis; QT dispersion

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ION; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; CALCIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RR INTERVAL; BLOOD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TIME;

ADULT; CALCIUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036900601     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.12.2170     Document Type: Article

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