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Pediatr Cardiol
January 2008
Department of Clinical Sciences, Unit of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Umeå, S-901 85, Umeå, Sweden.
The aim of this study was to examine whether changes in heart rate variability (HRV) can predict arrhythmias in children who have undergone the Fontan procedure. The study included 15 children with total cavopulmonary connection. All examinations included echocardiography and 24-h ambulatory electrocardiogram with power spectral analysis of HRV and Poincaré plots (plots of each R-R interval as a function of the previous R-R interval).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom a group of 663 patients with acute myocardial infarction, 15 patients were identified with the syndrome of sudden loss of consciousness not preceded by symptoms of cardiac or respiratory failure or cardiac arrhythmias. The syndrome was accompanied by normal sinus rhythm, as assessed by electrocardiogram, but by neither a palpable pulse nor audible heart sounds. Seven of these patients had postmortem studies, and clinicopathologic correlations are presented.
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