Publication Name	World Journal of Cardiology
Manuscript ID	30138
Country	Italy

Received	2016-09-14 09:16
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Category	Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Manuscript Type	Retrospective Cohort Study
Article Title	Does heart rate variability correlate with long-term prognosis in myocardial infarction patients treated by early revascularization?
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Leonida Compostella, Nenad Lakusic, Caterina Compostella, Li Van Stella Truong, Sabino Iliceto and Fabio Bellotto
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Leonida Compostella, MD, Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation, Istituto Codivilla-Putti, Via Codivilla, I-32043 Cortina d’Ampezzo (BL), Italy. l.compostella@alice.it
Key Words	Heart rate variability; Autonomic nervous system; Primary percutaneous coronary intervention; Myocardial infarction; ST-elevation myocardial infarction; Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction; Left ventricle ejection fraction; Long-term prognosis
Core Tip	Depressed heart rate variability (HRV) is usually considered a negative long-term prognostic factor after an acute myocardial infarction (MI). Anyway, most of the supporting research was conducted before the era of immediate reperfusion by percutaneous coronary intervention. In our study, in MI patients treated by early reperfusion abnormal values of HRV are present in a low percentage of cases. Low HRV does not correlate with long term-prognosis, both in ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation MI patients. Abnormal HRV seems to have lost prognostic significance in the present era of primary percutaneous revascularization.
Publish Date	2017-01-18 18:48
Citation	Compostella L, Lakusic N, Compostella C, Truong LVS, Iliceto S, Bellotto F. Does heart rate variability correlate with long-term prognosis in myocardial infarction patients treated by early revascularization? World J Cardiol 2017; 9(1): 27-38
URL	http://www.wjgnet.com/1949-8462/full/v9/i1/27.htm
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4330/wjc.v9.i1.27

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