Adverse Prognosis of ST Depression on the Resting Electrocardiogram in Stable Patients Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Analysis of the Basis for this Association

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-62

  Dwyer Jr , Edward M ^a   Case, Robert B ^b   Gillespie, John A ^b   Greenberg, Henry M ^b   Krone, Ronald J ^b   Lichstein, Edgar ^b   Moss, Arthur J ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram; Myocardial infarction; ST depression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005694506     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.1996.tb00262.x     Document Type: Article

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