Fragmented QRS complexes not typical of a bundle branch block: A marker of greater myocardial perfusion tomography abnormalities in coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-353

  Mahenthiran, Jo ^a   Khan, Bilal R ^a   Sawada, Stephen G ^a   Das, Mithilesh K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; exercise stress testing; image artifacts; myocardial infarction; Myocardial perfusion imaging; single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PACING; HEART RHYTHM; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; TIME; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ARRHYTHMIA; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34249712819     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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