Discordant ST changes
Featured Example
References
- Dr Smith's ECG Blog (2019) - Elderly with Paced Rhythm Possible Ischemic symptoms and an Equivocal Smith Modified Sgarbossa ECG, (Accessed: 24/08/2019)
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This ECG is from a woman in her 50s who presented with chest pressure on a background of heart failure and hypertension. BP 223/125.
This ECG shows sinus rhythm, LBBB and anterior ST elevation. Sgarbossa positive but modified sgarbossa negative. Echo showed LVH, troponin did show a rise and fall, MIBI showed normal perfusion. The most likely cause was a type II MI. The ECG changes did not evolve and were likely baseline changes.

This ECG is from a woman in her 40s who presented with chest pain that had been waxing and waning over the past 24 hours. She had a history of renal failure on dialysis, hypertension, diabetes and a normal catheterisation a year ago. This was her initial ECG.
This ECG shows sinus tachycardia with nonspecific intraventricular delay, tall QRS and widespread PR segment depression. The ST segments are all discordant apart from V4 and V1. These changes were dynamic over serial ECGs. The cath was again normal. Echo showed a trace of pericardial effusion. The diagnosis was myopericarditis.

This ECG is from a middle-aged male who presented with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea and hypoxia on a background of heart failure, biventricular pacemaker, ICD and previous LV thrombus.
This ECG shows biventricular paced rhythm with RBBB-like morphology and discordant ST elevation in I, aVL, V3-5 due to acutely decompensated heart failure.