Complete left bundle branch block with left QRS axis deviation: Defining its clinical importance

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-303

  Parharidis, Georgios ^a,b   Nouskas, J ^a   Efthimiadis, G ^a   Styliadis, J ^a   Gemitzis, K ^a   Hatzimiltiadis, S ^a   Karoulas, T ^a   Tsifodimos, D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Department of Cardiology ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Left bundle branch block; Left QRS axis deviation; Normal QRS axis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; QRS COMPLEX; R WAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030847911     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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