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. 2020 May 20;27(2):14.
doi: 10.5837/bjc.2020.014. eCollection 2020.

Can a giant U-wave be innocent?

Sinead Curran  1 , Waleed Arshad  2 , Arvinder Kurbaan  3 , Han B Xiao  3
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Can a giant U-wave be innocent?

Sinead Curran et al. Br J Cardiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: U-wave; electrocardiogram (ECG); giant U-wave.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. A 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) showing sinus rhythm, normal time intervals and normal QRS-T morphology. There are dominant U-waves in leads II, III, avF, V4 to V6. The U-wave is of similar size, or greater than the preceding T-wave in the same leads (arrow)
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