Relationship between normalization of negative T waves on exercise ECG and residual myocardial viability in patients with previous myocardial infarction and no post-infarction angina

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 153-159

  Ajisaka, Ryuichi ^a   Watanabe, Shigeyuki ^a   Masuoka, Takeshi ^a   Yamanouchi, Takayoshi ^a   Saitoh, Takumi ^a   Toyama, Masahiro ^a   Takeda, Tohru ^a   Itai, Yuji ^a   Sugishita, Yasuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exercise; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial viability; Negative T waves

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; T WAVE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 0031921770     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.153     Document Type: Article

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