Combined anterior and inferior ST-segment elevation: Electrocardiographic differentiation between right coronary artery occlusion with predominant right ventricular infarction and distal left anterior descending branch occlusion

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-388

  Alzand, Becker S N ^a,b   Gorgels, Anton P M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 79955063445     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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