Electrocardiographic predictors of sudden cardiac death in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 225-229

  Panikkath, Ragesh ^a   Reinier, Kyndaron ^a   Uy Evanado, Audrey ^a   Teodorescu, Carmen ^a   Gunson, Karen ^b   Jui, Jonathan ^b   Chugh, Sumeet S ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

left ventricular hypertrophy; QT interval; risk prediction; sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ARREST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JT INTERVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 84878398354     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anec.12003     Document Type: Article

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