Association of the frontal QRS-T angle with adverse cardiac remodeling, impaired left and right ventricular function, and worse outcomes in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Selvaraj, Senthil ^a   Ilkhanoff, Leonard ^a   Burke, Michael A ^a   Freed, Benjamin H ^b   Lang, Roberto M ^b   Martinez, Eva E ^a   Shah, Sanjiv J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diastolic heart failure; Echocardiography; Outcomes; QRS T angle

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QRS COMPLEX; T WAVE; VERY ELDERLY;

B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BNP; CORRECTED QT; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HF; HFPEF; LEFT VENTRICULAR; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; LV; LVEF; OUTCOMES; QRS-T ANGLE; QTC; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; RV; TAPSE; TRICUSPID ANNULAR PLANE SYSTOLIC EXCURSION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84896534448     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2013.08.023     Document Type: Article

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