Admission clinical and electrocardiographic characteristics predicting in-hospital development of high-degree atrioventricular block in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1134-1138

  Birnbaum, Yochai ^a   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^a   Herz, Izhak ^a   Zlotikamien, Bruria ^a   Chetrit, Angela ^b   Olmer, Liraz ^b   Barbash, Gabriel I ^c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 0030671141     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00628-0     Document Type: Article

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