Can cardiac death be predicted from an ambulatory 24-hour ECG?
For the prediction of cardiac death significant prognostic information can be derived from ambulatory 24-hr ECGs when they are recorded on indication in the cardiological outpatient-clinic. In both CHD and non-CHD patients, ventricular arrhythmias, supraventricular arrhythmias and conduction disturbances are all of importance in the assessment of prognosis. These conclusions are based on a review of all 123 cardiac deaths and 433 randomly selected survivors from a cohort of 5095 patients who underwent 24-hr ECG-recording on clinical indication and whose survival status was ascertained 18 months after the recording date.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality; D009426:Netherlands; D011379:Prognosis; D012306:Risk