Should T-wave alternans magnitude be corrected with T-wave amplitude in the ultra-short-term prediction of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias?

Europace

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1512-1513

  Takasugi, Nobuhiro ^a   Kubota, Tomoki ^a   Nishigaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Verrier, Richard L ^b   Kawasaki, Masanori ^a   Takasugi, Mieko ^c   Ushikoshi, Hiroaki ^a   Hattori, Arihiro ^a   Ojio, Shinsuke ^d   Aoyama, Takuma ^a   Takemura, Genzou ^a   Minatoguchi, Shinya ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Matsunami General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Gifu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LETTER; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T WAVE ALTERNANS; T WAVE AMPLITUDE;

EID: 80053405760     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur266     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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