Prognostic implications of progressive cardiac conduction disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-67

  Kawaguchi, Tamiro ^a   Hayashi, Hideki ^a   Miyamoto, Akashi ^a   Yoshino, Tomohide ^a   Taniguchi, Atsushi ^a   Naiki, Nobu ^a   Sugimoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Ito, Makoto ^a   Xue, Joel Q ^b   Murakami, Yoshitaka ^a   Horie, Minoru ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction; Electrocardiography; Heart failure; Prognosis; Ventricles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PR INTERVAL; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84871688575     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0849     Document Type: Article

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