Fragmented QRS on a 12-lead ECG: A predictor of mortality and cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1385-1392

  Das, Mithilesh Kumar ^a   Saha, Chandan ^b   El Masry, Hicham ^a   Peng, Jonathan ^a   Dandamudi, Gopi ^a   Mahenthiran, Jo ^a   McHenry, Paul ^a   Zipes, Douglas P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac events; Fragmented QRS; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; R WAVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 35348871898     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.06.024     Document Type: Article

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