ECG library
Left ventricular hypertrophy
coreA 59-year-old with years of untreated hypertension.
25 mm/s · 10 mm/mV · synthetic tracing
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Calipers:2000 ms50.0 small boxes30 bpm if R-RDrag the orange markers. One small box = 40 ms.
Key findings
- Voltage criteria
- Lateral strain pattern
Learning points
- Voltage criteria are specific but insensitive; a normal-voltage ECG excludes little.
- Strain-pattern T inversion mimics ischemia; compare with old tracings before diagnosing an event.
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