Heart rate variability in risk stratification of cardiac patients

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-159

  Huikuri, Heikki V ^a   Stein, Phyllis K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Mortality; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RR INTERVAL; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH;

ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; AMI; ATRAMI; AUTONOMIC TONE AND REFLEXES AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; BETA-BLOCKER HEART ATTACK TRIAL; BHAT; CABG; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS AND RISK STRATIFICATION AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; CARISMA; CHF; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING; DANISH INVESTIGATIONS OF ARRHYTHMIA AND MORTALITY ON DOFETILIDE; DEFIBRILLATOR IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TRIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS IN NON-ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY TREATMENT EVALUATION; DEFINITE; DIAMOND; DYNAMIT; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HF; HIGH FREQUENCY; HR; ICD; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LEFT VENTRICULAR; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; LF; LOW FREQUENCY; LV; LVEF; MI; MORTALITY; MPIP; MULTICENTER POST-INFARCTION PROJECT; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REFINE; RISK ESTIMATION AFTER INFARCTION, NONINVASIVE EVALUATION; SDNN; STANDARD DEVIATION OF N-N INTERVALS;

HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84887409832     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: 18731740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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