The predictive value of exercise QRS duration changes for post-PTCA coronary events

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-67

  Efrati, Shai ^a   Cantor, Angel ^a   Goldfarb, Benjamin ^a   Ilia, Reuben ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Exercise QRS; Post PTCA coronary events

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RESTENOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 2142853542     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1542-474X.2003.08110.x     Document Type: Article

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