@article{3051292, title = "Exercise-induced ST-segment changes in lead V-1 identify the significantly narrowed coronary artery in patients with single-vessel disease - Correlation with thallium-201 scintigraphy and coronary arteriography data", author = "Michaelides, AP and Psomadaki, ZD and Richter, DJ and Dilaveris, PE and and Andrikopoulos, GK and Kakaidis, S and Stefanadis, C and Gialafos, JE and and Toutouzas, PK", journal = "Journal of Electrocardiology", year = "1999", volume = "32", number = "1", pages = "7-14", publisher = "CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE INC MEDICAL PUBLISHERS", issn = "0022-0736, 1532-8430", doi = "10.1016/S0022-0736(99)90016-X", keywords = "exercise testing; ST-segment changes; lead V-1; coronary; artery disease", abstract = "We investigated the correlation of exercise-induced ST-segment changes in lead V-1, with the detection of the significantly narrowed vessel that induced ischemia during exercise in myocardial areas supplied by this vessel. We studied 198 patients who underwent exercise testing, thallium-201 scintigraphy, and coronary arteriography. The patients were divided into three groups. In group 1 (ST-segment elevation in lead V-1), 84% had left anterior descending coronary artery disease (P < .001); in group 2 (ST-segment depression in lead V-1), 76% had right coronary artery disease (P < .001); and in group 3 (no ST-segment changes in lead V-1), there were no significant differences concerning the narrowed vessel. Thallium-201 scintigraphy data confirmed the existence of the reversible perfusion defect(s) in an area(s) of myocardium supplied by the respective coronary arteries (P < .001). Exercise-induced ST-segment elevation or depresssion in V-1 may identify the obstructed vessel in patients with single-vessel disease and without prior myocardial infarction." }