Left bundle branch block pattern complicating the electrocardiographic evaluation of acute myocardial infarction

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-62

  Brady Jr , William J ^a,c   Aufderheide, Tom P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ECG; electrocardiogram; left bundle branch block; myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE;

EID: 8044245451     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03644.x     Document Type: Article

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