A new electrocardiographic algorithm to locate the occlusion in left anterior descending coronary artery

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Fiol, Miguel ^a   Carrillo, Andrés ^a   Cygankiewicz, Iwona ^b   Velasco, Julio ^a   Riera, Maria ^a   Bayés Genis, Antoni ^a   Gómez, Alfredo ^a   Peral, Vicente ^a   Bethencourt, Armando ^a   Goldwasser, Diego ^b   Molina, Fredis ^b   De Luna, Antoni Bayés ^b  

^a Son Dureta University Hospital   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary angiography; Electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART REINFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 73249124144     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20347     Document Type: Article

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