Clinical Value of Lead aVR
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Abstract
Lead aVR is the only lead in the surface ECG that does not face the "typically" relevant walls of the left ventricle.Historically, its value has been neglected most likely due to its unusual configuration and direction, which appeared to have little correlation with other more congruous and easily diagnostic frontal leads.The isolation of the unipolar leads in the Standard surface ECG presentation may also have played an important role.Even with this "unfair" neglect, we know nowadays that it is very sensitive to locate obstructed epicardial coronary arteries.Besides helping distinguishing the culprit lesion of an infarct, lead aVR also helps recognizing other conditions that could be of clinical significance such as pericarditis, Brugada syndrome, fascicular blocks of the right branch, ectopic left atrial rhythms, etc.The purpose of this review is to revise the clinical value of lead aVR in the recognition of frequent and not so frequent clinical conditions. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2011;16(3):295-302aVR; unipolar limb lead; aVR signThe conventional ECG has 12 leads.Each lead records electrical activity of the heart from different perspective.Therefore, it correlates to different anatomical areas of the heart.aVR, aVL, and aVF are augmented unipolar leads in the frontal plane, after their inventor Dr. Emanuel Goldberger (known collectively as the Goldberger's leads).They are derived from the same three electrodes as leads I, II, and III with the reference lead on the limb being sensed and disconnected from the other two.Unipolar leads also have two poles, as a voltage is measured; however, the negative pole is a composite pole (Wilson's central terminal) made up of signals from lots of other electrodes.In a 12-lead ECG, all leads besides the limb leads are unipolar (aVR, aVL, aVF, V 1 , V 2 , V 3 , V 4 , V 5 , and V 6 ).The augmented limb leads aVR, aVL, and aVF are amplified in this way because the
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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