Ventricular arrhythmia is predicted by sum absolute QRST integralbut not by QRS width.

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Published in J Electrocardiol on September 15, 2010

Authors

Larisa G Tereshchenko1, Alan Cheng, Barry J Fetics, Joseph E Marine, David D Spragg, Sunil Sinha, Hugh Calkins, Gordon F Tomaselli, Ronald D Berger

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. lteresh1@jhmi.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Prospective Observational Study of the ICD in Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention (PROSe-ICD) | NCT00733590

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