Journal article
The 24-hour heart rate behavior in long-term survivors of cardiac transplantation
Abstract
A detailed computerized analysis of heart rate (HR) behavior during ambulatory monitoring was performed in 19 long-term survivors of cardiac transplantation (12 orthotopic, 7 heterotopic) and in 10 normal volunteers. Compared with normal hearts, the transplanted denervated and the recipient innervated hearts in the heterotopic group showed higher average HRs over the whole 24 hours, the waking and sleeping periods. The rates of the denervated …
Authors
Alexopoulos D; Yusuf S; Johnston JA; Bostock J; Sleight P; Yacoub MH
Journal
The American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 61, No. 11, pp. 880–884
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 1988
DOI
10.1016/0002-9149(88)90363-3
ISSN
0002-9149