Heart rate turbulence impairment and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with systemic sclerosis

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 920-928

  Bienias, Piotr ^a   Ciurzyński, Michał ^a   Glińska Wielochowska, Maria ^a   Korczak, Dariusz ^a   Kalińska Bienias, Agnieszka ^a   Gliński, Wiesław ^a   Pruszczyk, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

cardiac autonomic dysfunction; heart rate turbulence; systemic sclerosis; ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE TURBULENCE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77955303124     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02779.x     Document Type: Article

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