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Myocardial Infarction and Functional Outcome Assessment in Pigs
Published on: April 25, 2014
Right ventricular infarction mimicking anterior infarction
Manolis Vavuranakis1, Maria Drakopoulou, Konstantinos Toutouzas
11st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, University of Athens, Greece. mvav@otenet.gr
Abstract:
It is rare to observe ST elevation in anterior derivations caused by right ventricular branch occlusion. We described the case of a patient with unstable angina who developed acute right ventricular myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation in anterior precordial leads (V(1)-V(4)) shortly after coronary angiography. Coronary angiogram revealed total occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA) proximally to the right ventricular branch. This reminds us that the presence of diffuse ST-segment elevation in the precordial leads could be due to acute RCA occlusion. The differentiation of these two entities is important, as their therapies are quite different.
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