Decreased scale-specific heart rate variability after multiresolution wavelet analysis predicts sudden cardiac death in heart failure patients

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 358-360

  Arsenos, Petros ^a   Gatzoulis, Konstantinos ^a   Manis, George ^b   Gialernios, Theodoros ^a   Dilaveris, Polychronis ^a   Tsiachris, Dimitrios ^a   Archontakis, Stefanos ^a   Kartsagoulis, Efstathios ^a   Mytas, Dimitrios ^c   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c Sismanogleio Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Holter; Scale specific heart rate variability; Sudden cardiac death; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855941579     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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