Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Ross MacKenzie.
Asymptomatic ST segment elevation in a life insurance applicant's ECG raises several prognostically important possibilities such as myocardial infarction, pericarditis, Brugada syndrome and early repolarization. This ECG case study discusses the ECG features involved in the differential diagnosis.
Marked T wave inversion in a life insurance applicant's ECG may suggest high risk. Careful analysis of the ECG, an informative attending physician statement, and judicious use of additional testing allows the medical director to put this striking ECG abnormality in its proper context.
Tall R waves in lead V1 present the life insurance company medical director with a diagnostic dilemma. This ECG pattern may be present in applicants with right bundle branch block, right ventricular hypertrophy, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, posterior myocardial infarction, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, muscular dystrophy, dextrocardia, misplaced precordial leads, as well as in normal individuals. This ECG case study discusses the ECG features involved in the differential diagnosis.