A new electrocardiographic marker for sympathetic nerve stimulation: Modulation of repolarization by stimulation of stellate ganglia

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 694-699

  Ramirez, Rafael J ^a   Ajijola, Olujimi A ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Holmström, Björn ^a   Lüning, Hampus ^a   Laks, Michael M ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Stellate ganglia; Sympathetic nerve stimulation; Ventricular repolarization vector

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT; STELLATE GANGLION; STERNOTOMY; SWINE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; T WAVE AMPLITUDE; THERAPY EFFECT; THORACOTOMY;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; STELLATE GANGLION; SWINE; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054941401     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: 15328430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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