ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads

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Causes

  1. Myocarditis
  2. Atypical Right Bundle Branch Block
  3. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
  4. Early Repolarization
  5. Acute Pericarditis
  6. Acute myocardial ischemia or infarction
  7. Pulmonary Embolism
  8. Prinzmetal’s angina
  9. Dissecting aortic aneurysm
  10. Various central and autonomic nervous system abnormalities
  11. Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  12. Thiamine deficiency
  13. Hypokalemia
  14. Hyperkalemia
  15. Hypercalcemia
  16. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/cardiomyopathy ARVD/C
  17. Hypothermia
  18. Mechanical compression of right ventricular outflow tract as with mediastinal tumor
  19. Hemopericardium
  20. Fatty acid oxidation disorder (medium chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency)
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