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Does the presence of inferior ST elevation during acute anterior myocardial infarction predict specific coronary anatomy and clinical prognosis?
Does the presence of inferior ST elevation during acute anterior myocardial infarction predict specific coronary anatomy and clinical prognosis?
Inferior ST elevation during acute anterior myocardial infarction is a highly specific electrocardiographic sign for distal occlusion of a wrapped left anterior descending artery and is associated with a better in-hospital prognosis.
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Inferior ST elevation may signal distal wrapped LAD occlusion in anterior MI; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before guiding management.
Tamura et al. (1995) studied this question.
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