The relationship between terminal QRS complex distortion and early low dose dobutamine stress echocardiography in acute anterior myocardial infarction

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-386

  Sucu, Mehmet Murat ^a   Karadede, Abdulaziz ^a   Aydinalp, Ozlem ^a   Ozturk, Onder ^a   Toprak, Nizamenttin ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Necrosis

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AKINESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; R WAVE; SCORING SYSTEM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 3442893585     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.45.373     Document Type: Article

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