Right bundle branch block without overt heart disease predicts higher risk of pacemaker implantation: The study of atomic-bomb survivors

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 77-82

  Kusumoto, Saburo ^a,b   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Makita, Naomasa ^a   Ichimaru, Shinichiro ^b   Kaku, Takashi ^c   Haruta, Daisuke ^a,b   Hida, Ayumi ^b   Sera, Nobuko ^b   Imaizumi, Misa ^b   Nakashima, Eiji ^b   Maemura, Koji ^a   Akahoshi, Masazumi ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^c National Health Insurance Hirado Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bundle branch block; Conduction disease; Electrocardiography; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTED HEART PACEMAKER; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; VERY ELDERLY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATOMIC BOMB; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84901196195     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.03.152     Document Type: Article

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