Prognostic value of QT interval parameters for mortality risk stratification in Chagas' disease: Results of a long-term follow-up study

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-312

  Salles, Gil ^a,c   Xavier, Sergio ^a,b   Sousa, Andrea ^a,b   Hasslocher Moreno, Alejandro ^b   Cardoso, Claudia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Death, sudden; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT ANTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; T WAVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BRAZIL; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 0042809576     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000079174.13444.9C     Document Type: Article

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