Clinical predictors of cardiac events in patients with isolated syncope and negative electrophysiologic study

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-33

  Da Costa, Antoine ^a,b   Gulian, Jean Luc ^a   Romeyer Bouchard, Cécile ^a   Messier, Marc ^a   Zarqane, Naïma ^a   Samuel, Bernard ^a   Khiel, Abdel ^a   Isaaz, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Electrocardiography; Electrophysiology testing; Heart block; Risk factors; Risk stratification; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT ANTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT POSTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RHYTHM; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33645381497     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2005.05.025     Document Type: Article

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