Effect of Imipramine on Linear and Nonlinear Measures of Heart Rate Variability in Children

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-25

  Srinivasan, K ^a   Ashok, M V ^a   Vaz, M ^a   Yeragani, V K ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Cardiac side effects; Fractal dimension; Spectral; Tricyclic antidepressants

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS TONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHILD; ENURESIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMIPRAMINE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POSTURE; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 0942265411     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-003-0468-5     Document Type: Article

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