Diagnosing acute myocardial infarction in patients with left bundle branch block

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 782-788

  Lopes, Renato D ^a   Siha, Hany ^b   Fu, Yuling ^b   Mehta, Rajendra H ^a   Patel, Manesh R ^a   Armstrong, Paul W ^b   Granger, Christopher B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE ISOENZYME; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PEXELIZUMAB; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SHOCK; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052294097     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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