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I don't know anything about medicine, i just want to know if a inverted p wave on ecg can be nothing bad.?

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Could be fine: It's usually fine. The exact location the P wave comes from in the heart moves up and down in the right atrium along something called the crista terminalis. As it does so, the P wave morphology can change. Your specific situation may vary, of course.

Answered 2/12/2016

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A member asked:

I don't know anything about medicine, i just want to know if a inverted p wave on ecg can be nothing bad.?

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Dr. John Garner answered

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