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Q: Left ventricular hypertrophy results

asked by: joanne1973 on June 5th, 2009

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Good afternnon, i am just wondering if you could explain somethings to me please....my six year old son had a ecg the other week and his results came today but i am not sure what they mean.

keowns blood pressure was 100/63 mmhg. ECG showed sinus rhytem with borderline LVH by voltage criteria.Echocardiogram showed structurally normal heart with normal left ventricular size and fuction and a fractional shortening of 39%...

please could you explain the above to me please

kinbd regards
joanne obrien

also i forgot to mention my son has becker muscular dystrophy

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