Attenuation of ECG voltage in cirrhotic patients

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 175-181

  Madias, John E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascites; Attenuation of the ECG voltage; Body volume conductor; Cirrhosis; Electrical impedance; Electrocardiography; Electrophysiology; Peripheral oedema

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RETREATMENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; ASCITES; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33947166869     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eul182     Document Type: Article

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