The Tpeak - Tend interval as an electrocardiographic risk marker of arrhythmic and mortality outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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The Tpeak - Tend interval (the interval from the peak to the end of the T wave), an electrocardiographic marker reflecting transmural dispersion of repolarization, has been used to predict ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (VT/VF) and sudden cardiac death in different clinical settings.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Heart Rhythm

Title: Heart rhythm

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1556-3871

ISSN (Print): 1547-5271

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 2017

Volume: 14

Issue: 8

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[1 ] Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China; Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China; School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. Electronic address: tseg@cuhk.edu.hk.

[2 ] Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.

[3 ] School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China.

[4 ] Second Department of Cardiology, Laboratory of Cardiac Electrophysiology, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.

[5 ] Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

[6 ] Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China.

[7 ] Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China; Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China.

[8 ] Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, LKS Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China.

[9 ] Department of Cardiology, Theodor Burghele Clinical Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.

[10 ] Electrophysiology Unit, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bangalore, India.

[11 ] Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, Zurich, Switzerland.

[12 ] Cardiovascular Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.

[13 ] Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.

[14 ] School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

[15 ] Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China.

[16 ] Lankenau Institute for Medical Research and Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

[17 ] Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: liutongdoc@126.com.

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Publisher Item ID: S1547-5271(17)30645-8

DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.05.031

PubMed ID: 28552749

SO-VID: ef6402f6-d444-447b-9788-b24e25b0283d

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Keywords: Ventricular arrhythmia,Dispersion of repolarization,Risk stratification,Sudden cardiac death,T(peak) − T(end)

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Keywords: Ventricular arrhythmia, Dispersion of repolarization, Risk stratification, Sudden cardiac death, T(peak) − T(end)

The Tpeak - Tend interval as an electrocardiographic risk marker of arrhythmic and mortality outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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