High incidence of focal left ventricular wall motion abnormalities and normal coronary arteries in patients with myocardial infarctions presenting to a community hospital

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 376-381

  Strunk, Brian ^a,b   Shaw, Richard E ^a   Bull, Sally ^a   Adams, James ^a   Baer, Margaret ^a   Gershengorn, Kent ^a   Kao, Ann ^a   Keeffe, Brian ^a   Sklar, Joel ^a   Sperling, David ^a   Sperling, Robert ^a   Wexman, Mark ^a   Young, Jerald ^a  

^a Marin General Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746855856     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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