CheyneStokes respiration and obstructive sleep apnoea are independent risk factors for malignant ventricular arrhythmias requiring appropriate cardioverter-defibrillator therapies in patients with congestive heart failure

European Heart Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-74

  Bitter, Thomas ^a   Westerheide, Nina ^b   Prinz, Christian ^a   Hossain, Mohamed Sajid ^a   Vogt, Jrgen ^a   Langer, Christoph ^a   Horstkotte, Dieter ^a   Oldenburg, Olaf ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; CheyneStokes respiration; Heart failure; Sleep disordered breathing; Ventricular tachycardias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; CHEYNE STOKES BREATHING; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 78649975790     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq327     Document Type: Article

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