What Does This ECG Report Indicate?

Posted on Tue, 21 Mar 2017

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Question : recently one of relative have undergone through health check-up. his ECG shows abnormal rythem of heart.
request your advise on followint
1. is ECG abnormal ?
2. do he need to undergone any further medical test to rule out other diseaess of heart

Answered by Dr. Rishu Saxena (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Normal ECG in Sinus rythm.

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Answers are-
1) Yes perfectly normal ECG.
The doctor has written sinus arrhythmia; but it's wrongly interpreted by your doctors. It's normal and in sinus rhythm. All QRS complexes are in same longitudinal line,P and T wave in each lead are in same line. It's normal sinus rhythm.
2) ECG is one of the baseline tests of cardiology. After age of 40 year, every person should go for stress test and 2d echo once in a year prophylactically. Combined together sensitivity of 2d echo and stress test to rule out coronary artery disease is 85%.

Regards

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