title: [Uncommon aspect of electrocardiographic ischemia. Correlations with coronarography].
abstract: It has long been known that the morphology of ventricular repolarization is extremely sensitive to acute or chronic myocardial anoxia. In patients with coronary disease, we are used to observe a wide variety of ST segment, T wave and sometimes U wave abnormalities. The classical description of "lesions" or "ischaemia", as well as their anatomical locations called, perhaps rather arbitrarily, "subendocardial" or "subepicardial" account for ST segment displacements and T wave inversions the patterns of which are well known to all of us. It may happen, however, that repolarization takes a frankly unusual appearance very different from the conventional images. On several occasions we were surprised to find, in a situation of acute or subacute coronary obstruction, a highly atypical and characteristically very transient repolarization pattern with considerable lengthening of QT and broad and deep inversion of T wave which, to our knowledge, have never been described in the literature. A systematic search for such unusual ECG patterns, conducted over the last 4 years in the Cardiology department of the Bicêtre Hospital on patients with ischaemic heart disease, has yielded 16 cases which are reported in the present study.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Aspect insolite de l'ischémie électrocardiographique. Corrélations avec la coronarographie.