Bizarre T Waves: What Do They Mean?

Electrocardiographic artifacts are common and may often interfere with interpretation. We describe a case of bizarre appearing T waves. The left arm electrode was placed near a pulsatile fistula, which created an artery pulse tapping artifact. When encountering unexpected electrocardiographic findin...

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Autores principales: Bracey, Alexander, Meyers, H. Pendell, Smith, Stephen W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8414534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34505075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.06.032
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description Electrocardiographic artifacts are common and may often interfere with interpretation. We describe a case of bizarre appearing T waves. The left arm electrode was placed near a pulsatile fistula, which created an artery pulse tapping artifact. When encountering unexpected electrocardiographic findings, inspection of the electrocardiogram and lead placement may identify the cause. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-84145342021-09-08 Bizarre T Waves: What Do They Mean? Bracey, Alexander Meyers, H. Pendell Smith, Stephen W. JACC Case Rep Ecg Teaching Competition Electrocardiographic artifacts are common and may often interfere with interpretation. We describe a case of bizarre appearing T waves. The left arm electrode was placed near a pulsatile fistula, which created an artery pulse tapping artifact. When encountering unexpected electrocardiographic findings, inspection of the electrocardiogram and lead placement may identify the cause. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2021-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8414534/ /pubmed/34505075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.06.032 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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