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Case Reports
. 1976 Oct;70(4):535-7.
doi: 10.1378/chest.70.4.535.

Unusual electrocardiographic changes in spontaneous pneumothorax

P Kuritzky, A L Goldfarb
Case Reports

Unusual electrocardiographic changes in spontaneous pneumothorax

P Kuritzky et al. Chest. 1976 Oct.

Abstract

A young woman with spontaneous left pneumothorax had a phasic voltage alternation of her electrocardiogram that resolved with expansion of the lung. Likely explanations for this phenomenon are a respiratory dependent change in cardiac anatomy and a change in the volume conductor with respiration.

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