Prolonged QTc interval predicts poststroke paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-76

  Hoshino, Takao ^a   Nagao, Takehiko ^a   Shiga, Tsuyoshi ^b   Maruyama, Kenji ^a   Toi, Sono ^a   Mizuno, Satoko ^a   Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a   Shimizu, Satoru ^a   Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^c,d   Kitagawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Cardiology ^*  (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d FUKUOKA SANNO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; electrocardiography; stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART WORK; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; QT PROLONGATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPLICATION; HEART; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920396300     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006612     Document Type: Article

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