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onJanuary 12, 2011

Left Ventricular Aneurysm or Anterior Acute STEMI?

LV aneurysm

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I am simply going to post a link to a nice presentation of this at the ems12lead.com blog by Tom Bouthillet.

http://ems12lead.com/2011/01/12/left-ventricular-aneurysm-vs-acute-anterior-stemi/

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