Are there differences among patients with inferior acute myocardial infarction with ST depression in leads V2 and V3 and positive versus negative T waves in these leads on admission?

Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-298

  Porter, Avital ^b   Vaturi, Mordechai ^b   Adler, Yehuda ^b   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^b   Strasberg, Boris ^b   Herz, Izhak ^b   Kuzniec, Haim ^b   Birnbaum, Yochai ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Posterior infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; T WAVE;

COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CREATINE KINASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032468631     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006861     Document Type: Article

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