PMID: 9556876Apr 29, 1998Paper

Brief analysis of heart rate variability in for determining prognosis in the post-myocardial infarct period: methodologically reliable alternative to long-term ECG?

Zeitschrift für Kardiologie
T KlingenhebenS H Hohnloser

Abstract

Heart rate variability (HRV) has been established as an important risk parameter in patients surviving myocardial infarction. Recently, analysis of HRV-particularly of the standard deviation of NN intervals (SDNN)--from short term ECG recordings has been proposed as an alternative to that from 24 hour Holter monitorings. The present study is the first to compare SDNN from short term recordings to that from 24 hour recordings with respect to risk stratification after myocardial infarction. In 60 patients at the time of discharge from the hospital, SDNN from Holter monitoring averaged 93 +/- 30 ms compared to 39 +/- 18 determined from short term recordings. Patients with a prospectively defined clinical endpoint differed significantly from those with an uneventful course with respect to age, left ventricular ejection fraction, mean RR interval from Holter recording (753 +/- 153 vs 921 +/- 132 ms), mean RR from short term recording (783 +/- 153 vs 914 +/- 163 ms), and SDNN from the Hotler recording (71 +/- 27 vs 97 +/- 29 ms; p < 0.001). However, patients with and without a clinical event could not be separated by means of SDNN measured from short term ECG registrations (35 +/- 22 vs 41 +/- 19 ms; p = NS). Thus, SDNN measured from...Continue Reading

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Oct 1, 2003·Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology : the Official Journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc·Eduardo R Migliaro, Paola Contreras
Apr 9, 2011·Clinical Research in Cardiology : Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society·R PfeiferA Voss
Feb 25, 2011·Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology·Wei JiangRanga Krishnan
Aug 23, 2006·Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE·Gavin Richard H Sandercock, David A Brodie

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