title: Predictive value of admission electrocardiogram for multivessel disease in acute anterior and anterior-inferior myocardial infarction.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Our aim was to investigate the correlation between admission ECG and coronary angiography findings in terms of predicting the culprit vessel responsible for the infarct or multivessel disease in acute anterior or anterior-inferior myocardial infarction (AMI).
  
  
  METHODS
  We investigated 101 patients with a diagnosis of anterior AMI with or without ST-segment elevation or ST-segment depression in at least two leads in DII, III, aVF. The patients were classified as those with vessel involvement in the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery and patients with multivessel disease. Vessel involvement in LAD + circumflex artery (Cx) or LAD + right coronary artery (RCA) or LAD + Cx + RCA were considered as multivessel disease. Thus, (a) anterior AMI patients with reciprocal changes in inferior leads, (b) anterior AMI patients with inferior elevations, (c) all anterior AMI patients according to the ST-segment changes in the inferior region were analyzed according to the presence of LAD or multivessel involvement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Presence of ST-segment depression in aVL and V6 was significantly correlated with the presence of multivessel disease in anterior AMI patients with reciprocal changes in the inferior leads (P = 0.005 and P = 0.003, respectively). No statistically significant difference between the leads were detected in terms of ST-segment elevation in predicting vessel involvement in the two groups of anterior AMI patients with inferior elevations. When all the patients with anterior AMI were analyzed, the presence of ST-segment depression in leads aVL, V4, V5 and V6 were significantly associated with the presence of multivessel disease (P = 0.035, P = 0.010, P = 0.011, P = 0.001, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The presence of ST-segment depression in anterolateral leads in the admission ECG of anterior AMI patients with reciprocal changes in inferior leads was associated with multivessel disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Trakya University, 22030 Edirne, Turkey. turhankurum1@superonline.com
authors.forename: Turhan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kürüm
authors.forename: Erkan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Oztekin
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ozçelik
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eker
authors.forename: Mevlüt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Türe
authors.forename: Gültaç
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ozbay
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests