Electrocardiographic presentation of left main disease in patients undergoing urgent or emergent coronary artery bypass grafting

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 42-48

  Nikus, Kjell ^a   Järvinen, Otso ^a   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^b   Huhtala, Heini ^c   Tarkka, Matti ^a   Eskola, Markku ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Bypass grafting; Electrocardiogram; Left main coronary artery disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT MAIN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STROKE; T WAVE INVERSION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79955105723     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2011.03.2262     Document Type: Article

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