Heart rate turbulence for prediction of heart transplantation and mortality in chronic heart failure

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-237

  Sredniawa, Beata ^a   Cebula, Sylwia ^a   Kowalczyk, Jacek ^a   Batchvarov, Velislav N ^b   Musialik Lydka, Agata ^a   Sliwinska, Anna ^a   Wozniak, Aleksandra ^a   Zakliczynski, Michal ^a   Zembala, Marian ^a   Kalarus, Zbigniew ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chronic heart failure; heart rate turbulence; heart rate variability; heart transplantation; risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954653927     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2010.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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