Electrocardiographic markers of cardiac XXXX .

@entity1 @entity295 @entity63 @entity5 @entity741 @entity3 @entity583 @entity943
Cardiac @entity3 are often clinically inapparent but have important prognostic significance. A total of 1046 consecutive autopsies performed between 1981 and 1983 were reviewed, and 210 @entity1 with both premortem and autopsy diagnoses of @entity5 were found, in whom a recent (less than 3 months before death) ECG was available. Of these @entity1 , 47 had cardiac @entity3 (group I) and 163 did not (group II). In group I, 19 @entity1 had new ECG changes suggestive of @entity741 or injury, including either diffuse T wave inversion (10%), segmental (ECG pattern suggestive of a specific coronary distribution) T wave inversion (80%), or ST elevation (10%). None of these @entity1 had symptoms suggestive of @entity741 . In group II, six @entity1 had ECG changes suggestive of @entity741 or injury: four @entity1 with @entity295 , one with @entity583 , and one with aspergillus nodules within the myocardium. New @entity943 (seven @entity1 ) and low voltage (10 @entity1 ) were found with greater frequency in group I @entity1 (p less than 0.0005 and p less than 0.00001, respectively, vs group II). @entity1 with normal ECGs were unlikely to have cardiac @entity3 ; however, the finding of nonspecific ST-T wave changes was not helpful in differentiating the two groups. In clinically stable @entity1 with @entity5 and no cardiac symptoms suggestive of @entity63 , any new ECG change should raise the suspicion of cardiac @entity3 . The ECG finding of @entity741 or injury has high specificity (96%, p less than 0.000001) for cardiac @entity3 .
