Fragmented QRS and mortality risk in patients with left ventricular dysfunction

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 339-344

  Cheema, Aamir ^a,b   Khalid, Adnan ^a,b   Wimmer, Alan ^a,b   Bartone, Cheryl ^a,b   Chow, Theodore ^a,b   Spertus, John A ^a,b   Chan, Paul S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b The Carl & Edyth Lindner Center for Research & Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmented QRS; Left ventricular dysfunction; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGMENTED QRS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DYSFUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CARDIOVERSION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956682297     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.940478     Document Type: Article

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