ST-Segment Elevation in Conditions Other Than Acute Myocardial Infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2128-2135

  Wang, Kyuhyun ^a,c   Asinger, Richard W ^a   Marriott, Henry J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOVERSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDIUM; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GENE MUTATION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERICARDITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRINZMETAL ANGINA PECTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE; THROMBUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; ARRHYTHMIA; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDITIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0345283202     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra022580     Document Type: Review

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