AboutDavid Richardson Expertise Adult heart function and disease. Not very good about children lesss than 12. Hypertension is o.k. Heart rhythm a special interest.
Experience Certified in cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Was chairman of division of cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia. Am now mostly retired.
Organizations Fellow of American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology and member of American Physiological Society..
Publications Circulation, American Heart Journal, Hypertension.
Education/Credentials M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Residency training at Yale Uhniversity School of Medicine and Medical College of Virginia.
Awards and Honors Gold Heartt Award from American Heart Association in 1995.
Question Hello:
41-year-old non-smoking woman, bp 108/80, have MVP. Recently experiencing chest pains. Had a Cardiolite stress test. Over the phone, the clinic said results are normal. Now that I received the results in mail and now I have questions.
Results say "Sinus rhythm, RSR in V1."
Question: I'd like to know if "RSR" is a bad thing? When I searched the web, it looks like "RSR in V1" could be any of the following:
1. right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH),
2. posterior MI,
3. Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, and
4. right bundle branch block (RBBB).
They all sound bad to me.
Also, the results said "The patient had a lot of artifact on the EKG during the test."
and
"Stress portion is most likely negative for EKG changes of ischemia." I have no idea what that means.
Chest pains continue on and off. Just wondering, if everything is "normal"?
Thank you for any answers you can give.
Beth
Answer D-ear ---B-eth
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-----M-y ---computer is -acting up, S-orry-------
RST---in -V-! --is---alm-ost-always -normal. R-S-R- --in V---2 -isneeded --for --those ---other conditins.
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A-rtifact -on EKG ----just -means the leads--wern't placed securely. - No bad meaning.
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----C-hest pains --in a ---24 -year --old ----woman are almost -certainly -----------from- muscles in -the chest wall --and are normal.
--Please -write back -if this note --doesn't answer your questions completely.
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---D-avid Richardson
