Why the study?
Does acute ischemia cause normalization of inverted T waves in patients with coronary artery disease and previous myocardial infarction?
Does acute ischemia cause normalization of inverted T waves in patients with coronary artery disease and previous myocardial infarction?
Inverted T waves in patients with coronary artery disease and prior myocardial infarction can normalize during acute ischemia, potentially masking reciprocal ischemic changes.
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This phenomenon may mask reciprocal ischemic changes; hypothesis-generating observation that should not yet change ECG interpretation practices.
R.Joe Noble (1976) studied this question.
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