Demonstration of the relationship between heart dimensions and QRS voltage amplitude

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-173

  Castini, Diego ^a,c   Vitolo, Erminio ^b   Ornaghi, Maurizio ^a   Gentile, Francesco ^a  

^a Bassini Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brody's theory; Cardiac volume; Echocardiography; QRS voltage; R wave voltage; Vectorcardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEART SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENOUS RETURN;

ADULT; BLOOD VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029782635     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0736(96)80078-1     Document Type: Article

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