Heart rate turbulence in chagas disease

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 406-410

  Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz P ^a,e   Schmidt, Georg ^b   Sousa, Marcos R ^a   Lombardi, Federico ^c   Gomes, Murilo E D ^a   Perez, Amanda A ^a   Barros, Márcio V L ^d   Machado, Fernando S ^d   Costa Rocha, Manoel Otávio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d ECOAR Medicina Diagnóstica   (Brazil)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Heart rate turbulence; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CALCULATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE TURBULENCE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUS NODE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0348242855     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00059.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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