N. Kazuma et al., Can heart rate variability predict sudden death? A case of sudden death ina child with severe coronary sequelae of Kawasaki disease, PEDIAT CARD, 21(4), 2000, pp. 403-406
We report the heart rate variability (HRV) of a child aged 11 years, Arrhyt
hmia was the suspected cause of sudden death after 10 years of therapy for
Kawasaki disease. The linear methods failed to show any features of the HRV
that could have predicted the patient's sudden death, but the fractal scal
ing as a nonlinear method had suddenly decreased from 5.3 to 4.1 1 year bef
ore his death.