Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Even more evidence on the importance of lead aVR

From the Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiography:


We found that lead aVR may provide important additional information in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. It may provide a clue to the location of a lesion as well as the possibility of three vessel disease during an acute coronary syndrome. Lead aVR was found useful in the locus of arrhythmias and in differentiation of narrow and wide QRS complex tachycardias. It provides useful prognostic information for patients with the Brugada syndrome and tricyclic antidepressant toxicity. Lead aVR provides alternative criteria for the electrocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy and left anterior fascicular block.

1 comment:

Christopher said...

Another good article, from 2006:

Electrocardiographic applications of lead aVR
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 24, Issue 7, November 2006, Pages 864-874
Kelly Williamson, Amal Mattu, Claire U. Plautz, Allan Binder, William J. Brady