Abnormal heart rate turbulence predicts the initiation of ventricular arrhythmias

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1189-1197

  Iwasa, Atsushi ^a   Hwa, Michael ^a   Hassankhani, Alborz ^a   Liu, Taylor ^a   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic tone; Electrophysiologic study; Premature ventricular contraction; Sudden cardiac death; T wave alternans; Ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUDDEN DEATH; T WAVE; TURBULENT FLOW; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33644842283     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.50186.x     Document Type: Article

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