The clinical significance of postictal electrocardiographic changes mimicking acute myocardial infarction

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Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-4+80

  Yahalom, Malka ^a   Gellerman, Marc ^a   Wishniak, Alice ^a   Brezins, Marc ^a   Roguin, Nathan ^b  

^a WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac enzymes elevation; ECG repolarization abnormalities; Epilepsy; Non cardiac syndromes; Normal coronary angiography

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENUM ULCER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EPILEPSY; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; PANCREATITIS; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; SEIZURE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; T WAVE; ULCER PERFORATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 0037284364     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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