ECG of the month. Shades of evil. Inferolateral myocardial infarction.
The tracings shown below, 12-lead ECG and rhythm strip (lead II), belong to a 74-year-old man, and were recorded on his eighth hospital day. On admission, he gave a history of a "heart attack" about 11 days earlier.
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Department of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Thomason General Hospital, El Paso, Texas, USA.
D000368:Aged; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality