Right ventricular infarction mimicking anterior infarction: a case report.
Right ventricular infarction usually occurs in association with inferior infarction, with no remarkable electrocardiographic signs in conventional leads. This report describes a patient with a previous inferior acute myocardial infarction who developed right ventricular infarction with significant anterior lead ST segment elevation (V1-V4) caused by the loss of two large right ventricular branches during a coronary angioplasty of the right coronary artery. The case is discussed and the literature is reviewed.
Vives
M A
MA
Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
Bonet
L A
LA
Soriano
J R
JR
Lalaguna
L A
LA
Sáez
A O
AO
de Arellano
A R
AR
Pérez
M P
MP
D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012008:Recurrence