Effect of weight loss following bariatric surgery on myocardial dispersion of repolarization in morbidly obese patients

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 857-865

  Russo, Vincenzo ^a,b   Ammendola, Ernesto ^a   De Crescenzo, Ilaria ^a   Ricciardi, Danilo ^a   Capuano, Pasquale ^a   Topatino, Assunta ^a   Docimo, Ludovico ^a   Santangelo, Lucio ^a   Calabrò, Raffaele ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Bariatric surgery; Bilio intestinal bypass; JT dispersion; Morbid obesity; QT dispersion; Sudden death; Transmural dispersion of repolarization; Ventricular repolarization; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; JEJUNOILEAL BYPASS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 35748932387     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9160-9     Document Type: Article

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