Postcardiac surgery mediastinitis mimicking acute inferior myocardial infarction

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作者
Catarino, PA [1 ]
Westaby, S [1 ]
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[1] John Radcliffe Hosp, Oxford Heart Ctr, Dept Cardiac Surg, Oxford OX3 9DU, England
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10.1111/j.1540-8191.2000.tb00462.x
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Both inflammation and infarction may produce a similar clinical picture, including ST-segment elevation on the electrocardiogram. Typically, inflammation affects the whole myocardium, resulting in characteristic electrocardiographic changes in all epicardial leads. We describe a case of poststernotomy mediastinitis which produced electrocardiographic changes mimicking an acute inferior myocardial infarction.
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页数:4
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