Evaluation of ventricular repolarization dispersion during acute myocardial ischemia: Spatial and temporal ECG indices

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 375-391

  Arini, Pedro David ^a,b   Baglivo, Fabricio Hugo ^b   Martínez, Juan Pablo ^c,d   Laguna, Pablo ^c,d  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ischemia; PCA; Repolarization dispersion

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ISCHEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING ARTERIES; PCA; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REPOLARIZATION; SPATIAL CORRELATION MATRIX; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION DISPERSIONS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; T WAVE; VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION DISPERSION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84897113560     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-014-1136-z     Document Type: Article

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