Electrocardiographic criteria of left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with morbid obesity

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 258-262

  Domienik Karłowicz, Justyna ^a   Lichodziejewska, Barbara ^a   Lisik, Wojciech ^a   Ciurzyński, Michał ^a   Bienias, Piotr ^a   Chmura, Andrzej ^a   Pruszczyk, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

left ventricular hypertrophy; morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960567746     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2011.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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