Importance of left anterior homiblock development in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 672-674

  Assali, Abid ^a   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^a   Herz, Itzhak ^a   Solodky, Alejandro ^a   Sulkes, Jacqueline ^a   Strasberg, Boris ^a  

^a Department of Family Medicine   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ANTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0342981644     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00838-7     Document Type: Article

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