Open AccessPatterns of ectopy leading to increased risk of fatal or near-fatal cardiac arrhythmia in patients with depressed left ventricular function after an acute myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Claudia Lerma,
Alexander N. Gorelick,
Raja N. Ghanem,
Leon Glass,
Heikki V. Huikuri
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
europace
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1532-2092
pISSN - 1099-5129
DOI - 10.1093/europace/eus415
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , myocardial infarction , hazard ratio , sudden cardiac death , ejection fraction , clinical endpoint , sudden death , proportional hazards model , heart failure , confidence interval , clinical trial
To identify potential new markers for assessing the risk of sudden arrhythmic events based on a method that captures features of premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) in relation to sinus RR intervals in Holter recordings (heartprint).