Late potentials in healthy subjects: Do we need new criteria for abnormality?

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-32

  Toft, Jens ^a   Rasmussen, Verner ^b   Hesse, Birger ^a   Ali, Samir ^a   Carstensen, Steen ^a   Jensen, Gorm ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

age; criteria; left ventricular mass; signal averaged electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0030971148     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.1997.tb00306.x     Document Type: Article

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