Site of transmural late gadolinium enhancement on the cardiac MRI coincides with the ECG Leads Exhibiting Terminal QRS distortion in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarctions

International Heart Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 270-275

  Nimura, Asami ^a   Sakamoto, Naka ^a   Nakagawa, Naoki ^a   Ota, Hisanobu ^a   Tanabe, Yasuko ^a   Takeuchi, Toshiharu ^a   Natori, Shunsuke ^b   Sato, Nobuyuki ^a   Hasebe, Naoyuki ^a   Kawamura, Yuichiro ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Social Welfare Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI); Electrical damage; Electrocardiography; Ischemic heart disease; Localization of ventricular injury; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SCORING SYSTEM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84867915711     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.53.270     Document Type: Article

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