Clinical implications of intermediate QRS prolongation in the absence of bundle-branch block in patients with ST-segment-elevation acute myocardial infarction

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-34

  Tsukahara, Kengo ^a   Kimura, Kazuo ^a   Kosuge, Masami ^a   Shimizu, Tomoaki ^a   Sugano, Teruyasu ^a   Hibi, Kiyoshi ^a   Kanna, Masahiko ^a   Toda, Noritaka ^a   Takamura, Takeshi ^a   Okuda, Jun ^a   Nozawa, Naoki ^a   Furukawa, Eri ^a   Umemura, Satoshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Reperfusion

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART REINFARCTION; HEART RUPTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; QRS COMPLEX; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 19944431983     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.29     Document Type: Article

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