Impaired ventricular electrical stability and sympathetic hyperactivity in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 241-245

  Yavuz, Bunyamin ^a   Deniz, Ali ^a   Abali, Gulcan ^a   Ciftci, Orcun ^a   Sahiner, Levent ^a   Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Tokgozoglu, Lale ^a   Oto, Ali ^a  

^a Kecioren Hospital Ankara   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate variability; Multivessel coronary artery disease; QT dynamicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; STENOSIS;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 34248384381     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e3280ad4373     Document Type: Article

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