Significance of Q-wave regression after anterior wall acute myocardial infarction

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 742-746

  Nagase, K ^a   Tamura, Akira ^a   Mikuriya, Y ^a   Nasu, M ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abnormal Q wave; Anterior wall acute myocardial infarction; Left ventricular wall motion

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; CREATINE KINASE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; UROKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; R WAVE; RECANALIZATION; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032080739     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1997.0850     Document Type: Article

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