A 49-year-old woman attends the emergency department 1 hour after the onset of central crushing chest pain, radiating to both upper limbs, and associated with nausea, diaphoresis, and dizziness.
INTERPRETATION:
- Ventricular rate 67 bpm
- Sinus rhythm
- PR interval 200 ms
- QRS axis (-21°)
- QRS duration 92 ms
- R wave amplitude in aVL > 11 mm
- Q waves V1-2
- Poor R wave progression
- ST elevation in leads V1-3
- ST depression in lead V6
- T wave inversion/flattening I, aVL
- QTc 494 ms
DIAGNOSIS:
Acute anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) due to occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD).
