The prognostic significance of narrow fragmented QRS on admission electrocardiogram in patients hospitalized for decompensated systolic heart failure

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 560-564

  Ozcan, Sevgi ^a   Cakmak, Huseyin Altug ^a   Ikitimur, Baris ^a   Yurtseven, Ece ^a   Stavileci, Berna ^a   Tufekcioglu, Ebru Yucel ^a   Enar, Rasim ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGMENTED QRS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84883861744     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22158     Document Type: Article

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