Significance of lead strength during exercise testing

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-63

  Polizos, George ^a   Ellestad, Myrvin H ^a,b  

^a Memorial Heart & Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise testing; Ischemia; R waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33846637933     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2007.00139.x     Document Type: Article

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