Value of electrocardiographic algorithm based on "ups and downs" of ST in assessment of a culprit artery in evolving inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 709-714

  Fiol, Miquel ^a   Cygankiewicz, Iwona ^b   Carrillo, Andrés ^a   Bayés Genis, Antoni ^b   Santoyo, Omar ^a   Gómez, Alfredo ^a   Bethencourt, Armando ^a   Bayés De Luna, Antoni ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4544222349     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.05.053     Document Type: Article

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