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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2002; 39:295-300
© 2002 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Onset heart rate of microvolt-level T-wave alternans provides clinical and prognostic value in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

Hidetsuna Kitamura, MD*, Yoshio Ohnishi, MD*,*, Katsunori Okajima, MD*, Akihiko Ishida, MD*, ErdulfoJavier Galeano, MD*, Kazumasa Adachi, MD* and Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, MD*

* Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan



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Figure 1 The arrhythmia-free survival in 83 patients with determined T-wave alternans (TWA) results. The event-free probability of patients with the onset heart rate (OHR) ≤100 beats/min was significantly lower than that of patients without OHR ≤100 beats/min.

 


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Figure 2 The arrhythmia-free survival in 83 patients with determined T-wave alternans (TWA) results according to left ventricular ejection fraction (EF).

 




 
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