QRS duration and late mortality in unselected post-infarction patients of the revascularization era

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 427-433

  Bauer, Axel ^a   Watanabe, Mari A ^b   Barthel, Petra ^a   Schneider, Raphael ^a   Ulm, Kurt ^c   Schmidt, Georg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bundle branch block; Electrocardiography; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Prognosis; QRS duration; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT PROLONGATION; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUS RHYTHM; SUDDEN DEATH;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ARRHYTHMIA; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 32144454338     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi683     Document Type: Article

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