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A STUDY OF PATIENTS WHO CAME TO AUTOPSY

FRANK B. CUTTS, M.D.; A. HENRY CLAGETT, Jr., M.D.; FRANK T. FULTON, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1941;67(3):509-530.

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This study was undertaken primarily to determine the approximate accuracy of the precordial electrocardiogram as taken routinely in a general hospital in making or excluding the diagnosis of anterior cardiac infarction. Chest leads have been used clinically more and more since 1932. Several studies¹ have been made of the variations noted in the precordial electrocardiograms of normal persons, and there have appeared numerous reports² of abnormalities in the chest lead observed in the presence of various types of heart disease, particularly cardiac infarction. In addition, there have been some important investigations³ of direct and indirect chest leads following experimentally induced cardiac infarction in animals.

In a review of the literature it became evident that the studies dealing with human material, with a few exceptions, were in large part correlations between the precordial electrocardiogram and the condition of the heart as determined clinically. Thus we encountered only . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PROVIDENCE, R. I.

From the Heart Station of the Rhode Island Hospital.

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