Myocardial Infarction

In patients with a previous myocardial infarction, both the time and frequency domain measures of HRV are reduced, but the approximate entropy is significantly higher than in healthy subjects. Moreover, compared to healthy subjects, the slope fractal-like behavior within the heart-beat intervals is somewhat steeper in patients who have sustained a myocardial infarction. Time and frequency domain HRV analyses indicate that VLF power of HRV is the strongest independent predictor of ventricular tachycardia in patients that had sustained prior myocardial infarction. Interestingly, although different parameters in both time and frequency domains can predict mortality of patients following acute myocardial infarction

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Last date updated on October, 2024