PMID: 8613618Mar 15, 1996Paper

"Crochetage" (notch) on R wave in inferior limb leads: a new independent electrocardiographic sign of atrial septal defect

Journal of the American College of Cardiology
J HellerC Guerot

Abstract

This study sought to determine the clinical significance of a "crochetage" pattern--a notch near the apex of the R wave in electrocardiographic (ECG) inferior limb leads--in secundum atrial septal defect. Atrial septal defect is often overdiagnosed on the basis of classical clinical features. Thus, more specific signs on the ECG for screening are needed. Methods. We searched for a crochetage pattern in 1,560 older children and adults: 532 with secundum atrial septal defect, 266 with ventricular septal defect, 146 with pulmonary stenosis, 110 with mitral stenosis, 47 with cor pulmonale and 459 normal subjects. This pattern was observed respectively in 73.1%, 35.7%, 23.3%, 6.4%, 10.6% and 7.4% of these groups (p<0.001). In atrial septal defect, its incidence increased with larger anatomic defect (p<0.0001) or greater left-to-right shunt (p<0.0001), even in the presence of pulmonary hypertension. By multiple regression analysis, only shunt size (p<0.0006) and defect location (p<0.0001) were the determinants of its presence. In all groups, the specificity of this sign for the diagnosis was remarkably high when present in all three inferior limb leads (> or = to 92%), even when comparison was limited to patients with an incomplete r...Continue Reading

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