The role of heart rate variability, heart rate turbulence, and deceleration capacity in predicting cause-specific mortality in chronic heart failure

The volume of regional denervated myocardium (D-M) on positron emission tomography has been recently suggested as a strong independent predictor of cause-specific mortality from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in chronic heart failure. We sought to evaluate whether ECG indices of global autonomic function predict risk of SCA to a similar degree as regional D-M.

Source: Journal of Electrocardiology - November 6, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Salah S. Al-Zaiti, Grzegorz Pietrasik, Mary G. Carey, Mohammad Alhamaydeh, John M. Canty, James A. Fallavollita Source Type: research