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(Circulation. 1954;10:829.)
© 1954 American Heart Association, Inc.

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"Isolated" T-Wave Negativity in the "Ischemic Phase" of Myocardial Infarction in Man

ROBERT C. SCHLANT M.D.¹; HAROLD D. LEVINE M.D.¹; C. CABELL BAILEY M.D.¹

¹ From the Medical Clinic, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Mass.

T-wave inversion, in leads localized to a small segment of the precordium, has in rare instances been described as a normal variant. The present report concerns a number of individuals in whom more or less similar T-wave changes developed under circumstances suggesting myocardial ischemia, and who went on to develop acute infarction of the anterior wall of the heart. This may be a clinical analogue of the brief T-wave inversion which has been observed early in experimental coronary artery compression.