Fallacious electrocardiographic interpretation in acute myocardial infarction: Figure 1
Population
47-year-old male with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and typical anginal chest pain of 8 hours duration
Design
Case_report
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Discussion
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Implication
Verify lead placement in suspected inferior STEMI; case report leaves open the frequency of this ECG artifact.
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Population
47-year-old male with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and typical anginal chest pain of 8 hours duration
ECG lead reversal can simulate acute inferior wall myocardial infarction, emphasizing the need for systematic ECG interpretation to avoid erroneous localization of the culprit vessel.
Cite This Study
Ananthakrishna et al. (2012) studied this question.