Importance of the conal branch of the right coronary artery in patients with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction: Electrocardiographic and angiographic correlation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 506-511

  Ben Gal, Tuvia ^a   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^a,c   Herz, Itzhak ^a   Strasberg, Boris ^a   Zlotikamien, Bruria ^a   Sulkes, Jaqueline ^a   Birnbaum, Yochai ^a   Wagner, Galen S ^a,b   Sagie, Alex ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031049416     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(96)00536-0     Document Type: Article

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