Cardiac arrhythmias imprint specific signatures on Lorenz plots

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-60

  Esperer, Hans D ^a,b   Esperer, Chris ^c   Cohen, Richard J ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

24 hour Holter monitoring; Ambulatory electrocardiogram; Arrhythmias; Heart rate variability; Lorenz plot; Poincar plot; RR scatter plot

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38449118063     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2007.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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