Time-frequency analysis of the surface electrocardiogram for monitoring antiarrhythmic drug effects in atrial fibrillation

Summary, in English

This study explored time-frequency analysis of surface electrocardiograms in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation for monitoring atrial drug action. Drug loading over 3 days with oral flecainide (n = 13) or amiodarone (n = 17) organized the fibrillatory process expressed by decreased atrial fibrillatory rate, increased rate stability, and decreased exponential decay. Effects were more pronounced with flecainide than with amiodarone.

• Författare: D Husser; Martin Stridh; Leif Sörnmo; C Geller; H U Klein; Bertil Olsson; A Bollmann
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik; Kardiologi
• Publiceringsår: 2005
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 526-528
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: American Journal of Cardiology
• Volym: 95
• Issue: 4
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.10.025
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Excerpta Medica
• Ämne: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1879-1913