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Severe cranial trauma can cause electrocardiographic changes mimicking myocardial infarction despite normal coronary arteries and myocardium at autopsy.
Severe head injury can induce marked ECG changes mimicking myocardial infarction without underlying structural cardiac abnormalities.
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Clinicians should recognize neurogenic ECG mimics in cranial trauma to avoid misdiagnosis; extends RCT evidence for brain-heart interactions.
Serial electrocardiograms were done in a patient admitted to the hospital after a severe head injury. The electrocardiograms showed the development of Q-waves and marked ST-segment changes, suggestive of a myocardial infarction. At autopsy no abnormalities were found in the coronary arteries or myocardium.
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LEO G.H. BRUNNINKHUIS (1983) studied this question. Severe cranial trauma can cause electrocardiographic changes mimicking myocardial infarction despite normal coronary arteries and myocardium at autopsy.
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