Electrocardiographic left atrial abnormalities predict cardiovascular mortality

Clinical utilization of electrocardiography for diagnosis of left atrial abnormalities is hampered by variable P-wave morphologies, multiple empiric criteria, and lack of an imaging “gold standard”. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of P-wave patterns and demonstrate which components have associations with cardiovascular death (CVD).

Source: Journal of Electrocardiology - April 29, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Le Dung Ha, Aaron F. Grober, Julia Hock, Matthew Wheeler, Ayman Elbadawi, Nishit Biniwale, Basarat Baig, Victor Froelicher Source Type: research