Publication Date
9-1-2020
Journal
Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology
DOI
10.1111/anec.12783
PMID
32588536
PMCID
PMC7507532
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
6-25-2020
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Coronary Occlusion, Coronary Vessels, Databases, Factual, Electrocardiography, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Predictive Value of Tests, Prognosis, ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Severity of Illness Index, acute coronary occlusion, de Winter pattern, electrocardiogram, severity, upsloping ST depression
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The reported positive predictive value (PPV) for the "de Winter ECG pattern" to predict an acute left anterior descending artery (LAD) lesion is inconsistent. Besides, the morphology of upsloping or nonupsloping ST depression (STD) may have different significance of severity and prognostication.
METHODS: We searched the MEDLINE database using "de Winter" or "junctional ST-depression with tall symmetrical T-waves" or "tall T wave" or "STEMI equivalent" as the item up to March 2020. We compared the ECG differences between the different culprit arteries and various morphological STD.
RESULTS: A total of 70 patients with analyzable ECGs were included. In 60 patients (LAD group), the LAD was the culprit artery, while in 10 patients (non-LAD group), there were other etiologies. Maximal STD in V2 or V3 had a PPV of 89% of all patients and 98% of patients without ST elevation in V2 to detect an acute LAD lesion. The presence of q/Q-wave or poor R-wave progression in the precordial leads was significantly more often found in patients with upsloping STD than in patients with nonupsloping STD in the LAD group (84% vs. 27%, p < .01). In 18 patients, the ECG showed a change from upsloping to nonupsloping STD from the leads with maximal STD to the surrounding leads with less STD.
CONCLUSIONS: The location of the maximal STD in the precordial leads differs between patients with LAD as the culprit artery and other etiologies of the de Winter ECG pattern. Upsloping STD signifies more severe signs of ischemia than nonupsloping STD.