Advanced electrocardiographic predictors of mortality in familial dysautonomia

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 76-82

  Solaimanzadeh, I ^a   Schlegel, T T ^b   Feiveson, A H ^b   Greco, E C ^b   DePalma, J L ^b   Starc, V ^c   Marthol, H ^d   Tutaj, M ^e   Buechner, S ^f   Axelrod, F B ^g   Hilz, M J ^d,g  

^a National Space Biomedical Research Institute   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f General Regional Hospital   (Italy)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Heart rate variability; Hypoxia; Left ventricular hypertrophy; QRS T angle; QT interval; Signal averaged ECG; T wave morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSAUTONOMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T WAVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOXIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DYSAUTONOMIA, FAMILIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 56549093419     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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