Article
[Role of standard resting ECG in the assessment of sudden cardiac death risk].
Giornale italiano di cardiologia (2006) - 1 Dec 2014
Napolitano Carlo, Priori Silvia G
Abstract excerpt
Today the ECG is still, over 100 years after its invention (Willem Einthoven 1903), the most commonly used diagnostic procedure in clinical cardiology. In recent years, we have accumulated knowledge that has significantly expanded the diagnostic possibilities of ECG, through the recognition of patterns associated with a number of primary electrical diseases of the myocardium, the so-called inherited...
Topics
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac
- Brugada Syndrome
- Chromosome Segregation
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Electrocardiography
- Heart
- Humans
- Long QT Syndrome
- Phenotype
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Right
