Influence of the preoperative signal-averaged electrocardiogram on left ventricular function after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with left ventricular dysfunction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 285-289

  Cook, James R ^a,b   Flack, Joseph E ^a   Gregory, Cheryl A ^a   Deaton, David W ^a   Rousou, John A ^a   Engelman, Richard M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032133503     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00335-X     Document Type: Article

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