The prognostic significance of a fragmented QRS complex after primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-28

  Ari, Hasan ^a,b   Çetinkaya, Seçkin ^a   Ari, Selma ^a   Koca, Vedat ^a   Bozat, Tahsin ^a  

^a Bursa Postgraduate Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Bursa Yüksek Ihtisas Eǧitim ve Araştirma Hastanesi Yildirim ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fragmented QRS; MACE; Primary PCI

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGMENTED QRS COMPLEX; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; SCAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THORAX PAIN; AGED; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84861137112     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-011-0121-9     Document Type: Article

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