New Findings Reported from S. Patane and Co-Authors Describe Advances in Heart Attack.

"It has been rarely reported changing axis deviation also during atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter," researchers in Messina, Italy report (see also Heart Attack).

"Changing axis deviation has been also rarely reported during acute myocardial infarction associated with atrial fibrillation too. We present a case of a 49-year-old Italian man with revelation of changing axis deviation at the end of atrial fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction," wrote S. Patane and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "Also this case focuses attention on changing axis deviation."

Patane and colleagues published their study in International Journal of Cardiology …