Because the patient is not taking any medications associated with the ECG finding and does not have LVH, the main differential here is hypokalemia or cardiac ischemia. In cardiac ischemia ...

Low potassium is also known as ‘Hypokalemia’, and the health experts at Cleveland Clinic say: “Your body needs potassium to function correctly. It gets potassium through the food you eat.

An electrocardiogram (ECG) measures the electrical activity of the heartbeat. With each beat, an electrical impulse (or "wave") travels through the heart. Researchers designed an AI model ...

Meanwhile, hypokalemia (low potassium levels), hyperkalemia (high potassium levels), and hypocalcemia (low calcium levels) can cause irregular heartbeat and contribute to cardiac death.

Figure 1. Cause of death in prevalent dialysis patients in the United States, 2005 to 2007. 1 AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.