QT interval variability and adaptation to heart rate changes in patients with long QT syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-81

  Němec, Jan ^a,d   Buncová, Marie ^b   Shusterman, Vladimir ^a   Winter, Bruce ^c   Shen, Win Kuang ^c   Ackerman, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^d Cardiovascular Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Long QT syndrome; QT correction; QT variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; QT INTERVAL; RR INTERVAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149203598     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02179.x     Document Type: Article

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