Prolonged QT interval and coronary artery bypass mortality due to heart failure

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 604-607

  Foroughi, Mahnoosh ^a,b   Karkhaneh Yousefi, Zohreh ^a   Majidi Tehrani, Masood ^a   Noori Foroutaghe, Azam ^a   Ghanavati, Arash ^a   Hassantash, Seyed Ahmad ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary Artery Bypass; Electrocardiography; Hospital Mortality; Low Cardiac Output

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; QT PROLONGATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77449134879     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0218492309349068     Document Type: Article

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