Improved ECG detection of presence and severity of right ventricular pressure load validated with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Henkens, Ivo R ^a   Mouchaers, Koen T B ^b   Vonk Noordegraaf, Anton ^b   Boonstra, Anco ^b   Swenne, Cees A ^a   Maan, Arie C ^a   Man, Sum Che ^a   Twisk, Jos W R ^b   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Vliegen, Hubert W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Electrocardiogram; Hypertension; Pulmonary; Right ventricular hypertrophy; Ventricular gradient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PULMONARY ARTERY; ROC CURVE; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 44949253161     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01312.2007     Document Type: Article

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