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Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement

Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement. Chapter 6. Cardiac Enlargement . dilation stretched congestive heart failure hypertrophy increase size of heart muscle fibers aortic stenosis. Cardiac Enlargement . Increase amount of cardiac tissue How would this affect amount of depolarization?

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Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement

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  1. Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement • Chapter 6

  2. Cardiac Enlargement • dilation • stretched • congestive heart failure • hypertrophy • increase size of heart muscle fibers • aortic stenosis

  3. Cardiac Enlargement • Increase amount of cardiac tissue • How would this affect amount of depolarization? • How could that affect an ECG?

  4. Right Atrial Abnormality • Overload of the right atria • dilation • hypertrophy • Increase voltage of the P wave

  5. Right Atrial Abnormality • Normal P wave amplitude is less than 2.5 mm and 0.12 seconds in width. • Abnormal P waves are typically taller than 2.5 mm but not longer the 0.12 sec.

  6. Right Atrial Abnormality • Causes: • Pulmonary disease • Congenital heart disease

  7. Right Atrial Abnormality • Tall P waves in any of the following leads: • II, III, aVF or sometimes V1.

  8. Right Atrial Abnormality • P pulmonale • artial enlargement due to severe pulmonary disease • Atrial enlargement can occur in the absence of tall P waves.

  9. Left Atrial Abnormality • Left atria normally depolarizes after the right atria. • Left atrial enlargement should prolong the P wave greater than 0.12 sec. • P wave height may be normal or increased

  10. Left Atrial Abnormality • CAD may produce wide P waves without left atrial enlargement.

  11. Left Atrial Abnormality • Leads I and/or II may show notched P waves • (second hump due to delayed depolarization of the left atrium) • (P mitrale: mitral valve disease) • V1 may show a bi-phasic P wave • negative part is > 0.4 sec. or 1 mm in depth • (right atria is anterior to the left atria)

  12. Left Atrial Abnormality • Causes: • Valvular heart disease • Hypertensive heart disease • Cardiomyopathies • CAD

  13. Right Ventricular Hypertrophy • What do you think will happen to the ECG with ventricular hypertrophy?

  14. Normal QRS V6? V6? V1? V1? FIG. 4-6

  15. Normal QRS V1 V6

  16. Right Ventricular Hypertrophy • Consider right ventricular hypertrophy and V1 NORMAL HYPERTROPHY

  17. Right Ventricular Hypertrophy • In V1, R wave is greater than the S wave • In V1, T wave inversion (reason unknown) • Right axis deviation

  18. Right Ventricular Hypertrophy • Causes of RVH • congenital heart disease • atrial septal defects • others • Emphysema may mask signs of RVH

  19. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy • With LVH, the electrical balance is tipped even further to the left. • Predominate S waves in the right chest leads • Tall R waves in the left chest leads

  20. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy • If S wave in V1 + R wave in either V5 or V6> 35 mm (not specific indicator). • R wave > 11-13 mm in aVL • ST segment changes • Left axis deviation • Left atrial abnormality

  21. ST strain patterns

  22. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy • Causes: • Hypertension • Aortic stenosis • Risks of LVH • congestive heart failure • arrhythmias

  23. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy • High voltage can be seen in normal people, especially athletes • Hypertrophy in both ventricles the ECG will show more evidence of LVH

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