PATHOLOGICAL Q WAVES ON ECG

myocardial infarction:

transmural MI [of indeterminate age]

pseudo-infarction pattern:

left bundle branch block

WPW (Wolff-Parkinson-White) syndrome

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

hyperkalaemia

amyloid heart disease

cardiac contusion

myocarditis

dextrocardia

cardiac tumours

pulmonary embolism

normal variant in inferior leads (disappears on deep inspiration)

reversed limb leads or high lead placement

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