Acute Isolated Right Ventricular Infarction

Karim D. Mahmoud, MD, PhD; Wijnand K. Den Dekker, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Feb 2024)

Acute Isolated Right Ventricular Infarction

Karim D. Mahmoud, MD, PhD,
Wijnand K. Den Dekker, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Karim D. Mahmoud, MD, PhD: Address for correspondence: Dr Karim D. Mahmoud, Thorax Center, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Internal Postal Address Rg-619, Erasmus Medical Center, Doctor Molewaterplein 40, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands.; Department of Cardiology, Thorax Center, Cardiovascular Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Wijnand K. Den Dekker, MD, PhD: Department of Cardiology, Thorax Center, Cardiovascular Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 29, no. 3
p. 102176

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The electrocardiogram is universally used to diagnose ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and serves as guidance for the interventional cardiologist to identify the acute thrombotic lesion. However, this case illustrates that the electrocardiogram can also be deceiving.

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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