Increase in electrocardiographic R-waves after revascularization in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1385-1391

  Isobe, Satoshi ^a,c   Takada, Yasuo ^b   Ando, Akitada ^a   Ohshima, Satoru ^a   Yamada, Kiyoyasu ^a   Nanasato, Mamoru ^a   Unno, Kazumasa ^a   Ogawa, Takuo ^c   Kondo, Takahisa ^a   Izawa, Hideo ^a   Inden, Yasuya ^a   Hirai, Makoto ^d   Murohara, Toyoaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGOYA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Kami iida Daiichi General Hospital   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Echocardiography; R wave voltage; Revascularization; Tl BMIPP scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; R WAVE; REVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33750540616     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.1385     Document Type: Article

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