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The South African Flag Sign: An Electrocardiographic Flag for All Coronary Territories?

Published:2023-01 Issue: Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2324-7096
Container-title:Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports

Author:

Swarath Steven¹,Maharaj Nicole¹,Hall Andrew²,Frederick Jean Marie¹,Seecheran Rajeev³,Seecheran Valmiki¹,Seecheran Naveen Anand⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. North Central Regional Health Authority, Mt. Hope, Trinidad and Tobago

2. Advanced Cardiovascular Institute, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

3. Kansas University Medical Center, Wichita, KS, USA

4. The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

The South African flag sign (SAFS) is an acute, dynamic electrocardiographic (ECG) finding typically associated with first diagonal (D1) artery occlusion. We report the case of a 47-year-old woman who exhibited this pattern but subsequently revealed the dreaded “widow-maker” lesion (100% occluded proximal left anterior descending [LAD] artery) and severe multivessel disease (90% stenosis of the posterior left ventricular [PLV] artery and 80% stenosis of the left circumflex artery [LCx]).

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Safety Research,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Epidemiology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23247096231192861

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