QRS voltage-duration product in the identification of left ventricular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-148

  Bacharova, Ljuba ^a   Kyselovic, Jan ^b   Klimas, Jan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Left ventricular hypertrophy; QRS voltage duration product; Spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0036691287     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2002001100006     Document Type: Article

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