Autonomic regulation therapy suppresses quantitative T-wave alternans and improves baroreflex sensitivity in patients with heart failure enrolled in the ANTHEM-HF study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 721-728

  Libbus, Imad ^a   Nearing, Bruce D ^b   Amurthur, Badri ^a   KenKnight, Bruce H ^a   Verrier, Richard L ^b  

^a Cyberonics Inc   (Italy)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic regulation therapy; Autonomic tone; Autonomicr eflexes; Baroreceptor sensitivity; Heart failure; Heart rate turbulence; Heart rate variability; T wave alternans; Vagus nerve stimulation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC REGULATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE TURBULENCE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE STIMULATOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RR INTERVAL; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; T WAVE; T WAVE ALTERNANS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84958872576     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.11.030     Document Type: Article

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