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Chest, Vol 97, 566-571, Copyright © 1990 by American College of Chest Physicians

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R- and S-wave amplitude changes with acute anterior transmural myocardial ischemia. Correlations with left ventricular filling pressures

S Charlap, J Shani, N Schulhoff, B Herman and E Lichstein
Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, State University of New York, Health Science Center, Brooklyn.

The value of R- and S-wave amplitude changes as electrocardiographic (ECG) markers of myocardial ischemia and dysfunction was evaluated using coronary angioplasty as a model of acute transmural ischemia and ST segment elevation. Hemodynamic data and 12-lead ECGs were recorded at baseline and during coronary occlusion in 34 patients with left anterior descending artery angioplasty. In the precordial leads V1 through V4, the sum of R-wave amplitude increased in 17 patients, was unchanged in ten, and decreased in seven; the sum of S-wave amplitude decreased in 33 patients (including two patients with complete loss of S wave) and increased in one. Mean R-wave change was 2.7 +/- 6.2 mm, mean S-wave change was -12.9 +/- 9.0 mm, and mean precordial ST elevation was 12.5 +/- 8.7 mm. Absolute R-wave change correlated directly with ST elevations (p = .013), while S-wave change correlated inversely (p less than .007). Only ST elevations correlated with changes in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PW) (p less than .007). In the precordial lead with maximum ST elevations, only R-wave changes correlated with ST elevations (p = .002), and both R-wave changes and ST elevations correlated with changes in PW (R:p = .027; ST:p = .007). The presence of large increases in R waves or decreases in S wave, or of high-magnitude ST elevations identified patients with the highest elevations in PW. In conclusion, decreases in S waves and, less commonly, increases in R waves are seen with diagnostic ST elevations and may have some limited clinical value. The correlation between magnitude of acute anterior ST elevations and changes in left ventricular filling pressures may have important clinical consequence.


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