Title
Electrocardiogram and vectorcardiogram in left ventricular hypertrophy of valvular heart disease
Date of Award
1964
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
Department
Institute of Medical Sciences
First Advisor
[?]
First Committee Member
J. J. Kelley
Second Committee Member
Gerald G[?]
Abstract
Several systems of criteria have been offered for the electrocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy (1,6,7,8,11,13,14,16). None is completely satisfactory since one system errs in including too many normals and at the other end of the spectrum the other system excludes too many cases of anatomically proven left ventricular hypertrophy. However, a number of patients with proven left ventricular hypertrophy have normal electrocardiograms, or show nonspecific electrocardiographic abnormalities.
It has been suggested that spatial vectrocardiogram, recorded utilizing a corrected lead system, may be more sensitive in detecting left ventricular hypertrophy than routine scalar electrocardiogram (1,3,12,15,21,28,29,30).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate this contention and to establish reliable vectorcardiographic criteria of left ventricular hypertrophy.
Pages
90
Recommended Citation
Nuhoglu, Remzi. (1964). Electrocardiogram and vectorcardiogram in left ventricular hypertrophy of valvular heart disease. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/389