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Acute right ventricular infarction mimicking extensive anterolateral wall injury
A R Fernandez1, E J deMarchena, R F Sequeira
1Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine.
Chest
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
A patient presented with an acute right ventricular infarction characterized by an electrocardiographic current of injury in both the inferior (2,3,aVF) and anterior precordial leads (V1-V6). Cardiac catheterization demonstrated normal left ventricular wall motion, a codominant circulation, and severe disease of the right coronary artery. We propose that this coronary anatomy explains the injury currents on the electrocardiogram. This case illustrates a rare presentation of right ventricular myocardial infarction mimicking an extensive anterolateral wall injury.