Aortic regurgitation electrocardiogram
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]; Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S.; Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, M.B.B.S.
Overview
In aortic regurgitation, the electrocardiography findings are nonspecific. Electrocardiographic abnormalities in the patient with aortic regurgitation include left axis deviation and signs of left ventricular hypertrophy.
Electrocardiogram
Electrocardiographic abnormalities in the patient with aortic regurgitation include:
- Nonspecific changes of ST and T wave (due to left ventricular enlargement)
- Right coronary artery ischemic changes (suggestive of aortic dissection)
- ST elevation in II, III, aVF (inferior MI)
- ST elevation in V3R and V4R (right ventricle MI)
- ST depression in V1-V3 (posterior MI)
- Left ventricular hypertrophy
- Left axis deviation
- Left atrial enlargement
- Left ventricular volume overload pattern (prominent Q waves in leads I, aVL, and V3 to V6 and relatively small R waves in V1)
- Left ventricular conduction defects (typically late in the disease process)
- Re-polarization abnormalities
- ST-segment depression in precordial leads
Shown below is an ECG depicting left ventricular hypertrophy. Copyleft image obtained courtesy of ECGpedia [3]
Shown below is an ECG depicting left axis deviation. Copyleft image obtained courtesy of ECGpedia [4]
