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An electrocardiographic masquerade
B B Pavri1, B Reicher, D Z Kocovic
1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
A 60-year-old woman underwent successful pulmonary embolectomy for a massive pulmonary embolism. On postoperative day 2, while receiving intravenous dopamine for hypotension, she developed the tachycardia, and a 12-lead ECG was obtained (Fig. 1). Figure 2 shows the 12-lead ECG obtained on the previous day, when she was in sinus rhythm with frequent premature