Electrocardiographic criteria for detecting coronary artery disease in hypertensive patients with ST-segment changes during exercise testing

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 405-409

  Michaelides, Andreas P ^a   Liakos, Charalampos I ^a   Raftopoulos, Leonidas G ^a   Antoniades, Charalambos ^a   Vyssoulis, Gregory ^a   Andrikopoulos, George ^a   Ioakeimides, Nikolaos ^a   Tsioufis, Constantinos ^a   Soulis, Dimitrios ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arterial hypertension; Coronary artery disease; Electrocardiographic criteria; Exercise testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68949147621     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2008.12.022     Document Type: Article

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