Electrocardiographic patterns in acute inferior myocardial infarction with and without right ventricle involvement: Classification, diagnostic and prognostic value, masking effect

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Correale, Ernesto ^a,d   Battista, Rossano ^a   Martone, Angela ^a   Pietropaolo, Ferdinando ^a   Ricciardiello, Vincenzo ^a   DiGirolamo, Domenico ^a   Barlera, Simona ^b   Maggioni, Aldo P ^b,c  

^a Divisione di Cardiologia   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c ANMCO RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collateral circulation; Coronary angiogenesis; ECG classification: inferior AMI; Electrocardiographic abnormalities; Inferior AMI: ST changes and masking; Laboratory correlations; Prognosis; Right ventricle in acute myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT;

EID: 0032959699     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960220113     Document Type: Article

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