Abnormal spatial QRS-T angle, a marker of ventricular repolarisation, predicts serious ventricular arrhythmia in systemic sclerosis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-331

  Gialafos, Elias ^a,b   Konstantopoulou, Penelope ^a   Voulgari, Christina ^a   Giavri, Iren ^a   Panopoulos, Stelios ^a   Vaiopoulos, George ^a   Mavrikakis, Myron ^a   Moyssakis, Ioannis ^b   Sfikakis, Petros P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia markers; Electrocardiography; Systemic sclerosis; Ventricular arrhythmogeneity

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; SCL 70 ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SPATIAL QRS T ANGLE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; T WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84864752838     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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