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  2. Electrocardiography in myocardial infarction - Wikipedia

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    The 2018 European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/World Health Federation Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction for the ECG diagnosis of the ST segment elevation type of acute myocardial infarction require new ST elevation at J point of at least 1mm (0.1 mV) in two contiguous leads with the cut-points: ≥1 mm in all leads ...

  3. Diagnosis of myocardial infarction - Wikipedia

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    those with a so-called non-diagnostic or normal ECG. A normal ECG does not rule out acute myocardial infarction. Mistakes in interpretation are relatively common, and the failure to identify high risk features has a negative effect on the quality of patient care. [12] It should be determined if a person is at high risk for myocardial infarction ...

  4. Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures - Wikipedia

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    Electrocardiography (ECG/EKG in German vernacular. Elektrokardiogram) monitors electrical activity of the heart, primarily as recorded from the skin surface. A 12 lead recording, recording the electrical activity in three planes, anterior, posterior, and lateral is the most commonly used form.

  5. Myocardial infarction - Wikipedia

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    A myocardial infarction (2) has occurred with blockage of a branch of the left coronary artery (1). A myocardial infarction, according to current consensus, is defined by elevated cardiac biomarkers with a rising or falling trend and at least one of the following: [82] Symptoms relating to ischemia

  6. Electrocardiography - Wikipedia

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    Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG [a]), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles. [4] It is an electrogram of the heart which is a graph of voltage versus time of the electrical activity of the heart [ 5 ] using electrodes placed on the skin.

  7. Electrophysiological techniques for clinical diagnosis

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    The demyelination and scarring of axons in the neurons of the nervous system can affect their conduction properties and seriously harm the normal communication of the brain with the rest of the body. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that causes this deterioration of the myelin sheath. There isn't a unique test to diagnose MS and several ...

  8. List of cardiology mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    23 MI: signs and symptoms. 24 MI: therapeutic treatment. 25 MI: treatment of acute MI. ... Special tests normal (X-ray, EKG) Standing/ Sitting (vary with position)

  9. Left axis deviation - Wikipedia

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    These include normal variation, left ventricular hypertrophy, conduction defects, inferior wall myocardial infarction, preexcitation syndrome, ventricular ectopic rhythms, congenital heart disease, hyperkalemia, emphysema, mechanical shift and pacemaker-generated paced rhythm. Normal variation causing LAD is an age-related physiologic change.