Apical cardiomyopathy : an important differential diagnosis in ischaemic chest pain
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Date
1996
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Sri Lanka Medical Association
Abstract
Reports the cases of 1) a 54 year old man admitted with angina like pain of 3 hours. ECG showed deep ngative T waves in the anterolateral leads. But no septal Q waves. 2) a seventy year old man admitted with retrosternal chest pain and dyspnoea of 6 hours. ECG was as above. There were further investigations. Both patients had symptoms suggestive of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic-physiopathology, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic-diagnosis, Chest Pain-diagnosis, Myocardial Infarction, Myocardial Infarction-diagnosis, Myocardial Infarction-physiopathology
Citation
The Ceylon Medical Journal. 1996; 41(3):109-110