Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Hypertrophy in Infancy and Childhood

The demonstration of ventricular hypertrophy is a routine step in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease and it is important that the accuracy of the electrocardiographic criteria for the diagnosis of ventricular hypertrophy should be known and their reliability established. Such criteria have been defined and studied extensively in adults, but less so in infants and children.