Electrocardiographic changes in chronic severe anaemia
Maheshwari, M.; Baroopal, A.
Journal of the Indian Medical Association 109(3): 177-178
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5847 PMID: 22010588 Document Number: 648054
Electrocardiogram of total 35 patients of chronic severe anaemia with haemoglobin value < or = 5 g/dl was analysed and compared with same number of age and sex matched healthy subjects. Diminished QRS voltages in all limbs and precordial leads were the dominant finding, found in 100% patients. Compensatory hyperdynamic circulatory state with myocardial scarring and chronic fibrotic changes probably explains these ECG findings in this series of patients of chromic severe anaemia.