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QT interval and arrhythmic risk assessment after myocardial infarction
F Extramiana1, N Neyroud, H V Huikuri
1Cardiology Department, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|March 12, 1999
Abstract:
To assess ventricular repolarization features as predictors of ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT) in patients with previous myocardial infarction, we performed a dynamic study of QT interval from 24-hour electrocardiographic data. QT rate dependence was enhanced in patients with VT when compared with patients without VT.