Prolonged QTc affects short-term and long-term outcomes in patients with normal left ventricular function undergoing cardiac surgery Nattachai Anantasit, MD, John H. Boyd, MD, FRCP(C), James A. Russell, MD, FRCP(C), Christopher D. Fjell, PhD, Samuel V. Lichtenstein, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Keith R. Walley, MD, FRCP(C) The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 147, Issue 5, Pages 1627-1633 (May 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.11.043 Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for patients who underwent cardiac surgery and who had a left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 40%. QTc, Corrected QT interval. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 147, 1627-1633DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.11.043) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Incidence of 90-day mortality and new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) according to the preoperative QTc interval of patients who had cardiac surgery and who had a left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 40%. QTc, Corrected QT interval. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 147, 1627-1633DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.11.043) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions