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Journal of Electrocardiology;  July 1, 2003 ;     637 words ......reversible Brugada-type electrocardiogram (ECG) changes occurred in a patient with severe hypothermia...It raises the question, whether such ECG changes are caused by electrolyte disturbances...predisposed patients develop Brugada-like ECG changes under these circumstances. ...

Hypocalcemia-like electrocardiographic changes after administration of...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......patient who developed hypocalcemia-like ECG changes, in association with documented hypocalcemia...fosphenytoin administration. The origin of the ECG changes and implications for patient management...slightly from the initial rate. The ECG changes persisted and exacerbated. Five ...

Detox drug affects QT interval.(Brief Article)

Internal Medicine News;  February 1, 2005 ;     168 words ......Drug Abuse, Baltimore. Lofexidine has not previously produced ECG changes in human studies, but in animal studies, it has prolonged...lofexidine (BritLofex), has added a warning about adverse ECG changes to its summary of product characteristics. Before initiating...

Moving toward a new definition of acute myocardial infarction for the 21st...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......which occurs when serial evolutionary ECG changes are observed. A pilot substudy from...infarction (AMI) as shown in Table 1. The ECG changes must be present in >=2 leads, to...the definition of AMI regardless of ECG changes. There are several potential consequences...

Exelixis Reports Additional Data From the Phase I Trial of XL999 in...

PR Newswire;  November 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......ejection fraction, elevated troponins, and ECG changes on day 1, and another patient treated...grade 1 hypotension with nonspecific ECG changes. At weekly 200 mg fixed dosing, serious...patient with grade 3 hypotension, grade 3 ECG changes, and grade 3 increased troponin, and...

Prognostic Significance of Dipyridamole-Induced ST Depression in Patients...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......vasodilator-induced ischemic electrocardiographic (ECG) changes have incremental prognostic value over...value of vasodilator-induced ischemic ECG changes in the setting of normal PET MPI has...importance of dipyridamole-induced ischemic ECG changes in patients with normal ^sup 82^Rb ...

Electrocardiographic changes after head trauma

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Head trauma; Diffuse axonal injury; ECG changes 1. Introduction Electrocardiographic...Most previous studies have dealt with ECG changes and other cardiac consequences of subarachnoid...15, requiring reintubation. Dramatic ECG changes appeared concomitantly. Whereas the...

Inverted T Waves in Patient with Addisonian Crisis

Journal of the National Medical Association;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......patient who has hypotension and ischemic ECG changes without having underlying angina, Addisonian...hyperkalemia) or digoxin history to explain her ECG changes. Following recovery, the alteration...dysfunction. Their ventricular dysfunction and ECG changes were normalized after ...

Emergency Management and Commonly Encountered Outpatient Scenarios in...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......variability is high. Unfortunately, ECG changes might be subtle or even absent, further...diagnosis. In a retrospective review, ECG changes were seen in 43% of patients with potassium...suggests hyperkalemia. Patients without ECG changes but who are at high risk for developing...

Severe hyperkalemia with minimal electrocardiographic manifestations: A...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......or nonspecific electrocardiographic (ECG) changes is unusual. We report data on seven...K+ > = 8 mmol/L) without typical ECG changes. Initial ECGs revealed sinus rhythm...in one. Thus, the absence of typical ECG changes does not preclude severe hyperkalemia...

Phonocardiographic timing of third and fourth heart sounds during acute...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......many investigators noted the onset of ECG changes followed by angina. In this report...inferiorly (Fig. 1C). Coincident with the ECG changes, the patient reported dyspnea but denied...the time immediately before any acute ECG changes. Fifty seconds after the appearance...

The Novacode criteria for classification of ECG abnormalities and their...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......and for clinically significant serial ECG changes, both adverse and favorable, as a response...cardiovascular epidemiology, serial ECG changes, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias...arrhythmias. Classification of serial ECG changes is a relatively new requirement in clinical...

Inverted T waves on electrocardiogram: myocardial ischemia versus...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......even a moderate-size PE can cause these ECG changes. 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved...sensitivity and specificity of these ECG changes, many believe that a 12-lead ECG is...consecutive patients hospitalized for PE. ECG changes on admission and during hospitalization...

Use of a novel rule-based expert system in the detection of changes in the...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......examined in detecting electrocardiogram (ECG) changes in long duration ECG recordings. The...Key words: Computerized detection of ECG changes, ST-segment episodes, T-wave episodes...unable to specify the nature of the ECG changes (artificial neural networks). Recently...

Five types of MI will make up new definition.(Cardiovascular...

Internal Medicine News;  October 15, 2006 ;     595 words ......symptoms of myocardial ischemia, such as ECG changes, but which produces death before a blood...myocardial ischemia, such as characteristic ECG changes, or evidence of a new loss of myocardial...wall-motion abnormality seen with imaging. ECG changes can include left bundle branch ...