Left ventricular geometry and function are related to electrocardiographic characteristics and diagnoses

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 463-470

  Sundstrom J ^a,b   Lind, L ^a   Andren B ^a   Lithell, H ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Public Health ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Elderly men; Electrocardiography; Left ventricular geometry; Left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY SURFACE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRASYSTOLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; SWEDEN; T WAVE;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031683912     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.1998.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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