Significance of spontaneous normalization of negative T waves in infarct-related leads during healing of anterior wall acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1341-1344

  Tamura, Akira ^a   Nagase, Kimiaki ^a   Mikuriya, Yoshiaki ^a   Nasu, Masaru ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T WAVE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0032704687     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00569-X     Document Type: Article

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