Right bundle branch block in a patient with acute posterior myocardial infarction

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 78-81

  Okabe, Masanori ^a   Nomoto, Junko ^a   Fukuda, Keisuke ^a   Arakawa, Kikuo ^a   Kikuchi, Masahiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute posterior myocardial infarction; Interventricular septal rupture; Right bundle branch block

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM RUPTURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; ACUTE DISEASE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART INFARCTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 0031038638     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.61.78     Document Type: Article

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