Score indices for predicting electrophysiologic outcomes in patients with unexplained syncope

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-105

  Chen, Lin Y ^a   Jahangir, Arshad ^a   Decker, Wyatt W ^b   Smars, Peter A ^b   Wieling, Wouter ^d   Hodge, David O ^c   Gersh, Bernard J ^a   Hammill, Stephen C ^a   Shen, Win Kuang ^a,c  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bradyarrhythmia; Diagnosis; Outcome; Predictors; Syncope; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; SCORING SYSTEM; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SYNCOPE;

ARRHYTHMIA; BRADYCARDIA; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 29444456228     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-005-4593-3     Document Type: Article

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