Does electrocardiographic Q wave burden predict the extent of scarring or hibernating myocardium as quantified by positron emission tomography?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-56

  Ananthasubramaniam, Karthikeyan ^a,b   Chow, Benjamin J W ^a   Ruddy, Terrence D ^a   deKemp, Robert ^a   Davies, Ross A ^a   DaSilva, Jean ^a   Beanlands, Rob S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram; Hibernating myocardium; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial viability; Positron emission tomography; Q waves

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RUBIDIUM 82;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL HIBERNATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; Q WAVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CICATRIX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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