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Two patients with RBBB

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He commented: "by every measure, this would be RBBB with inferior and lateral STE appearing to be STEMI," but he also noted that there are several features that appear similar to false positives (like the first case above). There is also much STE in V3-V6, especially V4-V6, that must be considered to be STEMI. Peak troponin was 3.21

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ECG Blog #472 — At Least 4 Major Findings

Ken Grauer, MD

PEARL # 3: Knowing there is an acute inferior STEMI I looked next to see if there is also acute posterior involvement ( which so often accompanies inferior MI ). But larger-than-expected Q waves in each of the inferior leads ( especially in lead III ) are probably the result of this patients ongoing acute inferior STEMI.

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