Heart rate turbulence and left ventricular ejection fraction in Chagas disease

Europace

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 197-203

  Tundo, Fabrizio ^a   Lombardi, Federico ^a   Rocha, Manoel C ^b   Botoni, Fernando ^b   Schmidt, Georg ^c   Barros, Vladimir C ^b   Muzzi, Braulio ^b   Gomes, Murilo ^b   Pinto, Airandes ^b   Ribeiro, Antonio L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Chagas disease; Heart rate turbulence; Heart rate variability; Left ventricular dysfunction; Vagal control

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; AMIODARONE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 18144397466     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eupc.2005.02.114     Document Type: Article

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