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EKG in Pericardial Disease

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Since Willem Einthoven coined the term electrocardiogram (EKG) in at the turn of the twentieth century [1], the EKG has become an increasingly central tool in the clinician’s armamentarium.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai St Luke’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Eric M. Bader MD, Edgar Argulian MD, MPH, Emad F. Aziz MD, Eyal Herzog MD & Henry Greenberg MD

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Bader, E.M., Argulian, E., Aziz, E.F., Herzog, E., Greenberg, H. (2014). EKG in Pericardial Disease. In: Herzog, E. (eds) Management of Pericardial Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06124-5_4

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