Normal resting electrocardiographic variants in young athletes

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-75

  Higgins, John P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Lyndon B Johnson General Hospital   (United States)

^c American College of Sports Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Athlete's heart; Early repolarization; Normal variants

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE;

EID: 62549117852     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2008.12.14     Document Type: Review

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