Changing Capacity of Electrocardiographic Ventricular Repolarization in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients With and Without Nonfatal Cardiac Arrest

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-299

  Järvenpää, Jere ^a   Oikarinen, Lasse ^a   Korhonen, Petri ^a   Väänänen, Heikki ^b   Toivonen, Lauri ^a   Viitasalo, Matti ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; T WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33846447468     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.08.027     Document Type: Article

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