Comparative usefulness of beat-to-beat QT dispersion and QT interval fluctuations for identifying patients with organic heart disease at risk for ventricular arrhythmias

Circulation Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-128

  Galeano, Erdulfo J ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Ohnishi, Yoshio ^a   Okajima, Katsunori ^a   Ishida, Akihiko ^a   Kitamura, Hidetsuna ^a   Kubo, Shinya ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

QT dispersion; QT interval; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QT INTERVAL; RISK; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0037318737     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.67.125     Document Type: Article

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