Improved detection of coronary artery disease by exercise electrocardiography with the use of right precordial leads

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 340-345

  Michaelides, Andreas P ^a,b   Psomadaki, Zoi D ^a   Dilaveris, Polychronis E ^a   Richter, Dimitris J ^a   Andrikopoulos, George K ^a   Aggeli, Konstantina D ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos I ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033521957     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199902043400502     Document Type: Article

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