Exercise-induced ST-segment elevation in ECG lead aVR is a useful indicator of significant left main or ostial LAD coronary artery stenosis

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 176-186

  Uthamalingam, Shanmugam ^a   Zheng, Hui ^a   Leavitt, Marcia ^a   Pomerantsev, Eugene ^a   Ahmado, Imad ^a   Gurm, Gagandeep S ^a   Gewirtz, Henry ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

exercise treadmill test; lead aVR; left main coronary artery disease; myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; BOSTON; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951656433     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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