Chest pain and left bundle branch block.
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Treatment and outcomes of left bundle-branch block patients with myocardial infarction who present without chest pain. National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 2 Investigators.
OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the importance of chest pain on presentation as a predictor of in-hospital treatment and mortality in myocardial infarction (MI) patients with left bundle-branch block (LBBB). BACKGROUND Left bundle-branch block patients have a high mortality after MI but are unlikely to receive reperfusion therapy despite evidence from clinical trials demonstrating the effic...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings
دوره 14 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001