Arrhythmia risk stratification of patients after myocardial infarction using personalized heart models

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Arevalo, Hermenegild J ^a   Vadakkumpadan, Fijoy ^a   Guallar, Eliseo ^b   Jebb, Alexander ^a   Malamas, Peter ^a   Wu, Katherine C ^c   Trayanova, Natalia A ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84966318336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11437     Document Type: Article

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