Factors predicting coronary artery disease in patients with giant negative T waves

R Otrusinik; M A Alpert; C R Hamm; M Bikkina; M Porubicin; H Panayiotou

doi:10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00884-x

Factors predicting coronary artery disease in patients with giant negative T waves

Am J Cardiol. 2000 Apr 1;85(7):873-5, A9. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00884-x.

Authors

R Otrusinik¹, M A Alpert, C R Hamm, M Bikkina, M Porubicin, H Panayiotou

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiology, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine, Mobile, USA.

PMID: 10758930
DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00884-x

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Coronary Disease / complications
Coronary Disease / diagnosis
Coronary Disease / physiopathology*
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography*
Female
Humans
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / complications
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / diagnosis
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / physiopathology
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Contraction
Prognosis
Radionuclide Ventriculography
Retrospective Studies