Low voltage electrocardiogram after acute myocardial infarction.
Br Heart J
; 37(7): 748-51, 1975 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
In a retrospective study of patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted to a coronary monitoring unit in 1971 12 per cent (39 patients) had low voltage electrocardiograms within 72 hours of admission. Of these, 7 patients (18%) died while in hospital and a further 9 (23%) died within one year of their infarction. Of the 23 patients who survived, 16 were severely incapacitated by their symptoms at the one-year follow-up. A low voltage electrocardiogram in association with acute myocardial infarction appears to imply a poor prognosis in terms of both mortality and morbidity, independently of other prognostic indices.
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Electrocardiografía
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Infarto del Miocardio
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Br Heart J
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1975
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Article