TY - CHAP AU - Stavros Dimopoulos AU - Christos Manetos AU - Eleni Koroboki AU - John Terrovitis AU - Serafim Nanas ED - Richard M. Millis Y1 - 2012-01-25 PY - 2012 T1 - The Prognostic Role of ECG in Arterial Hypertension N2 - Electrocardiograms have become one of the most important, and widely used medical tools for diagnosing diseases such as cardiac arrhythmias, conduction disorders, electrolyte imbalances, hypertension, coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. This book reviews recent advancements in electrocardiography. The four sections of this volume, Cardiac Arrhythmias, Myocardial Infarction, Autonomic Dysregulation and Cardiotoxicology, provide comprehensive reviews of advancements in the clinical applications of electrocardiograms. This book is replete with diagrams, recordings, flow diagrams and algorithms which demonstrate the possible future direction for applying electrocardiography to evaluating the development and progression of cardiac diseases. The chapters in this book describe a number of unique features of electrocardiograms in adult and pediatric patient populations with predilections for cardiac arrhythmias and other electrical abnormalities associated with hypertension, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, sleep apnea syndromes, pericarditides, cardiomyopathies and cardiotoxicities, as well as innovative interpretations of electrocardiograms during exercise testing and electrical pacing. BT - Advances in Electrocardiograms SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/22931 DO - 10.5772/22931 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -