[Value of the esophageal ECG].
The Authors examined 20 patients suffering from anginose symdrome, whose standard ECG did not show remarkable alterations. In the same patients, oesophagus ECG did show clear signs of sub-epicardium lesion as well as necrosis, which interested the upper part of left ventricle's posterior wall; such zone is not explorable by traditional ECG. Hemodynamic poligraphic examinations were made as well, and thus also a reduction of cardiac inotropism was found out.
D000328:Adult; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D004947:Esophagus; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis; D009336:Necrosis
Considerazioni sull'utilità dell'ECG esofageo