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In the past few years, selection of patients with myocardial infarction for many clinical and follow-up studies has been based on the ECG criteria of presence or absence of the Q wave (Santiago et al., 1983; Hutter et al., 1981). However, anatomo-pathogical observations demonstrated that the development of transmural and non-transmural scars is poorly correlated with electrocardiographic signs of necrosis (Raunio et al., 1979). The inconclusive results of short and long-term prognosis (Madigan et al., 1976; Nicholson et al., 1983) may be related to the lack of consistent definition as well as inappropriate interpretation of the ECG findings which characterize the syndrome defined as “subendocardial infarction”.
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Parodi, O. (1987). The Role of PET in the Characterization of Myocardial Necrosis: Clinical Problems Related to the Non-Q-Wave Infarction. In: Heiss, WD., Pawlik, G., Herholz, K., Wienhard, K. (eds) Clinical efficacy of positron emission tomography. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3345-3_27
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