Factors predicting coronary artery disease in patients with giant negative T waves.
Seventy-four patients with giant negative T waves were studied to determine which electrocardiographic variables predicted the presence of coronary artery disease. The absence of left ventricular hypertrophy and the presence of symmetric T-wave inversion predicted coronary artery disease.
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Division of Cardiology, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine, Mobile, USA.
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Hamm
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Bikkina
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Porubicin
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Panayiotou
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D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D011379:Prognosis; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D012189:Retrospective Studies