Electrocardiogram in arterial hypertension – difficulties that are waiting for the doctors Case report
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Arterial hypertension may induce left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Electrocardiographic signs of LVH are accepted as independent cardiovascular risk factor in hypertensive patients. In this paper, the most popular diagnostic criteria of LVH are presented, as well as possible reasons of false negative and false positive results. There are pointed features of ECG that made diagnosis of LVH more probable. ECG changes that can interfere with ECG interpretation in another pathologies are also discussed.
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