Electrical Alternans and Vulnerability to Ventricular Arrhythmias
Open Access
- 27 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (4), 235-241
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199401273300402
Abstract
Although electrical alternans (alternating amplitude from beat to beat on the electrocardiogram) has been associated with ventricular arrhythmias in many clinical settings, its physiologic importance and prognostic implications remain unknown.Keywords
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