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What Causes Flipping Of T Waves In ECG?

i have recently been diagnosed with costochondritis.. whilst the drs were investigating the reason for the chest pains i had several ecgs as a standard procedure.. they said my ecg wasnt quite right as the T waves were flipping. i have been followed up by a echocardiogram which i am awaiting results. should i be concered? i am a heathly 22year old with no heart problems in the family.
Fri, 22 May 2015
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Hi, I did review your concern.
T wave in ECG repolarization of your heart muscle ventricles that follows relaxation of heart after each heart beat.

FLipping of T waves can be seen in electrolyte imbalance due to potassium, myocardial ischemia or some congenital channelopathies or heart muscle structure problems

Your age is very young for ischemia , however i would recommend you to get yourself evaluated by a cardiologist expert in arrhythmias known as electrophysiologist who can keep you under 24hr ECG holter monitoring and see and understand your heart condition and find out more about your T waves problem. Also a heart echocardiogram or a cardiac mri will help see structure of your heart.
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What Causes Flipping Of T Waves In ECG?

Hi, I did review your concern. T wave in ECG repolarization of your heart muscle ventricles that follows relaxation of heart after each heart beat. FLipping of T waves can be seen in electrolyte imbalance due to potassium, myocardial ischemia or some congenital channelopathies or heart muscle structure problems Your age is very young for ischemia , however i would recommend you to get yourself evaluated by a cardiologist expert in arrhythmias known as electrophysiologist who can keep you under 24hr ECG holter monitoring and see and understand your heart condition and find out more about your T waves problem. Also a heart echocardiogram or a cardiac mri will help see structure of your heart.