The hyperacute phase of right ventricular infarction

Lewis, B.S.; Rozenman, Y.; Ben-David, Y.

Heart and Lung the Journal of Critical Care 13(6): 682-684

1984


ISSN/ISBN: 0147-9563
PMID: 6567641
Document Number: 229265
In summary, the hyperacute phase of RV infarction presents three possible patterns on the surface ECG (Fig. 3): the typical repolarization picture of hyperacute myocardial infarction, with slope elevation of the ST segment and tall T waves; rounded elevation of the ST segment, where the typical changes are "damped" by negative or posterolaterally directed, LV repolarizing forces; and ST elevation concave upward in the right chest leads, where anteriorly directed, underlying left ventricular ST segment and T wave vectors enhance the hyperacute picture.

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