Electrocardiographic assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy with time - Voltage QRS and QRST-wave areas

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-40

  Oikarinen, Lasse ^a,b   Karvonen, M ^b,c   Viitasalo, M ^a   Takala, P ^b,c   Kaartinen, M ^a   Rossinen, J ^a   Tierala, I ^a,b   Hanninen H ^a,b   Katila, T ^b,c   Nieminen, M S ^a   Toivonen, L ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body surface potential mapping; Electrocardiogram; Left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QRS COMPLEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T WAVE;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0842308014     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001631     Document Type: Article

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