Electrocardiographic diagnosis of evolving acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle-branch block

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 481-487

  Sgarbossa, Elena B ^a   Pinski, Sergio L ^a   Barbagelata, Alejandro ^b   Underwood, Donald A ^a   Gates, Kathy B ^c   Topol, Eric J ^a   Galiff, Robert M ^c   Wagner, Galen S ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030024677     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199602223340801     Document Type: Article

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