A man in his early 60s presents to the emergency department with a 1-day history of pleuritic central chest pressure.

Just like ST-elevation infarctions ... Translated from the original German by David Roseveare. The anterior wall leads from a 12-channel ECG (25 mm/s, 10 mm/mV) with Wellens type A pattern.

Previous small-scale angiographic studies have shown that aVR ST-segment elevation is associated with disease of the proximal preseptal left anterior ... changes in other ECG leads.

A STEMI is generally defined as an Electrocardiogram (EKG) with ST elevation of greater than 1 mm in 2 or more contiguous leads. It has also been defined as a "new" Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB ...

To be eligible to enter the trial, patients had to have a first episode of anterior AMI, Killip class I to II, and an acceptable echocardiographic window. On ECG there had to be an ST elevation of ...