Temporal and positional variability of the ST segment during continuous vectorcardiography monitoring in healthy subjects

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-158

  Nørgaard, Bjarne L ^a   Rasmussen, Birthe M ^a   Dellborg, Mikael ^b   Thygesen, Kristian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body position; Monitoring; Myocardial ischemia; ST segments; Variability; Vectorcardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT;

EID: 0032943305     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0736(99)90093-6     Document Type: Article

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