QRS fragmentation: Diagnostic and prognostic significance

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-121

  Pietrasik, Grzegorz ^a   Zareba, Wojciech ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Diagnosis; Myocardial scar; Prognosis; Q wave; QRS fragmentation; Risk

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LONG QT SYNDROME; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; QRS FRAGMENTATION; R WAVE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; CARDIOVERSION; EQUIPMENT; FIBROSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84879021929     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: 1898018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/CJ.2012.0022     Document Type: Review

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