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Heart Disease (Expert Forum)
T waves
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Doctor's Answer
by CCF CARDIO MD APS, Sep 09, 1998 12:00AM
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Dear Bob,
There are actually many conditions and situations that can lead to T wave
inversions, however it is only a problem when it occurs in multiple leads in
the setting of other signs (subtle as they are) of hypertrophy of the heart, or in the
situation where you are concerned there might be decreased blood flow to a portion
of the heart- a kind of "almost heart attack"(medical term-ischemia.) Again, never is hypertrophy
or ischemia indicated by one lead with an inverted T wave on a single ecg and
just in case you are wondering, when ischemia occurs, it is an all or none thing and
does not start out with one inverted T wave and progress to others, rather it involves
many leads' T waves all at once.
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