Rituparna Shinde, Shinde Rituparna, Suresh Shinde, Shinde Suresh, Chandrashekhar Makhale, Makhale Chandrashekhar, Purvez Grant, Grant Purvez, Sunil Sathe, Sathe Sunil, Manuel Durairaj, M Durairaj, Yash Lokhandwala, Lokhandwala Yash, Jose Di Diego, J M DI Diego, Charles Antzelevitch, Antzelevitch Charles
The "J wave" (also referred to as "the Osborn wave,""the J deflection," or "the camel's hump") is a distinctive deflection occurring at the QRS-ST junction. In 1953, Dr. John Osborn described the "J wave" as an "injury current" resulting in ventricular fibrillation during experimental hypothermia. Although "J Wave" is supposed to be pathognomonic of hypothermia, it is seen in a host of other conditions such as hypercalcemia, brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cardiopulmonary arrest from over sedation, the Brugada syndrome, vasospastic angina, and idiopathic ventricular fibrillation...
June 2007: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology: PACE