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Postcardiac Surgery Mediastinitis Mimicking Acute Inferior Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Catarino Pedro A.,
Westaby Stephen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2000.tb00462.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinitis , myocardial infarction , cardiac surgery , surgery , cardiology
A bstract Both inflammation and infarction may produce a similar clinical picture, including ST‐segment elevation on the electrocardiogram. Typically, inflammation affects the whole myocardium, resulting in characteristic electrocardiographic changes in all epicardial leads. We describe a case of poststernotomy mediastinitis which produced electrocardiographic changes mimicking an acute inferior myocardial infarction.