Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
Left ventricular hypertrophy is no longer considered as an adaptive mechanism that compensates the pressure imposed on the heart and has been identified as an independent and significant risk factor for sudden death, acute myocardial infarction, congestive cardiac failure and stroke. Although newer diagnostic tools are available, the electrocardiogram (ECG) remains the most common mean for evaluating cardiac disease. Patient attending the Emergency department and those who was admitted in the Emergency medicine wards were the study subjects. The data was collected from the patients by the detailed clinical history, clinical examination of the patients and relevant investigation in a specially designed proforma. Chi‐Square test was used to compare between ECHO and ECG of Romhilt and Estes criteria, it was not significant. ECG of Romhilt and Estes criteria could diagnose LVH in total of 36 patients. Out of which only 28 patients had LVH by 2D ECHO. From above table, Sensitivity is 45.16%, Specificity is 78.95%, PPV is 77.78%, NPV is 46.86%, Accuracy is 58% and Kappa measure of agreement is 0.21.
How to cite this article:
C.N. Dileep. A Study on the Reliability of ECG in Diagnosis of LVH as Compared to ECHO.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.36478/makrjms.2024.11.244.247
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