Association between fragmented QRS complexes and left ventricular dysfunction in healthy smokers.
Adil BayramogluHakan TaşolarOsman BektaşAhmet KayaZeki Yüksel GünaydınPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)
In conclusion, our study demonstrated that fQRS is a parameter that can be used to determine left ventricle subclinical systolic and diastolic dysfunction in smokers, and that left ventricle dysfunction is related to the duration and intensity of smoking.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- smoking cessation
- mitral valve
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- oxidative stress
- blood pressure
- heart failure
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary artery
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- left atrial
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- coronary artery
- atrial fibrillation
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement