Relationship between brain natriuretic peptide, myocardial wall stress, and ventricular arrhythmia severity

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 771-777

  Sutovsky, Igor ^a   Katoh, Takao ^a   Ohno, Tadaaki ^a   Honma, Hiroshi ^a   Takayama, Hideo ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac hormones; Classification of arrhythmias; Holter monitoring; Transthoracic echocardiography; Wall motion score index

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE TENSION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT T TEST; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 16544394968     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.45.771     Document Type: Article

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