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Prognostic implications of increased QRS duration in patients with moderate and severe left ventricular systolic
H Silvet1, J Amin, S Padmanabhan
1Section of Cardiology, Loma Linda VA Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|July 13, 2001
Abstract:
Survival analysis was performed on a cohort of 2,265 patients with left ventricular ejection fraction of = 40% to investigate the effect of increased QRS duration on all-cause mortality. Presence of QRS prolongation independently predicted higher mortality in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. This finding may have important prognostic and therapeutic implications in this patient population.