Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 27, 2024
Written by Jesse McLaren, with a very few edits by Smith A 60-year-old presented with chest pain. Inferior hyperacute T waves, which have been added to the 2022 ACC consensus on chest pain as a “STEMI equivalent”[3] 3. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2010 7. But are there any other signs of Occlusion MI?
Open Heart
MAY 2, 2023
Aims Guidelines for suspected cardiac chest pain have used historical risk stratification tools, advocating invasive coronary angiography (ICA) first-line in those at highest risk. QoL scores did not significantly differ across domains. Trial registration number ClinicalTrials.gov Registry ( NCT01664858 ).
DAIC
MARCH 28, 2025
TheNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence(NICE) recommends CCTA as the first-line investigation for patients with chest pain due to suspected CAD, highlighting its importance in improving diagnostic certainty. Eur J Radiol. 2008;66(1):3741. doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.05.006. 2007.05.006. 2012) 380:2095128. link] iv IMV.2023
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 19, 2022
Written by Pendell Meyers, edits by Smith and Grauer A man in his late 20s with history of asthma presented to the ED with a transient episode of chest pain and shortness of breath after finishing a 4-mile run. His symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath were attributed to an asthma exacerbation during exercise.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 14, 2024
All patients aged between 25 and 84 years were recorded by the population-based Myocardial Infarction Registry in Augsburg, Germany, between 2010 and 2017. Results Patients with diabetes had significantly less frequent typical pain symptoms, including typical chest pain.
Open Heart
AUGUST 4, 2023
Adults who underwent AF ablation between 2010 and 2020 were included. We identified six symptom clusters: generally symptomatic, dyspnoea and oedema, chest pain, anxiety, fatigue and palpitations, and asymptomatic (reference). Methods We conducted a cross-sectional retrospective analysis using electronic health records data.
DAIC
MARCH 7, 2024
It reported the rate of CCTA exams by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased markedly from 2010 to 2019. Data was pulled from 2010–2019 Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary (PSPS) files obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website. Reeves, MD, Ethan J. Halpern, MD, and Vijay M.
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