Basic Electrocardiography
Normal and Abnormal ECG Patterns
Chapter One
Anatomy of the heart: the
importance of imaging techniques
correlations
The surface electrocardiography (ECG) in both
acute and chronic phase of ischaemic heart disease
(IHD) may give crucial information about the
coronary artery involved and which is the area of
myocardium that is at risk or already infarcted.
This information jointly with the ECG-clinical correlation
is very important for prognosis and risk
stratification, as will be demonstrated in this book.
Therefore, we will give in the following pages an
overview of the anatomy of the heart, especially the
heart walls and coronary tree, and emphasise the
best techniques currently used for its study.
For centuries, since the pioneering works of
Vesalio, Leonardo da Vinci, Lower and Bourgery-Jacob,
pathology has been a unique method to study
the anatomy of the heart. Since the end of the nineteenth
century, the visualisation of the heart in vivo
has been possible by X-ray examination. The last
40-50 years started ... read full excerpt from Basic Electrocardiography: Normal and Abnormal ECG Patterns ebook
