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Chest pain: Are these really "Nonspecific ST-T wave abnormalities", as the cardiologist interpretation states?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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?

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Randomised trial of stable chest pain investigation: 3-year clinical and quality of life results from CE-MARC 2

Open Heart

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 ).

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Chest pain, shortness of breath, T wave inversion, and rising troponin in a young healthy runner.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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.

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Characterising symptom clusters in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation

Open Heart

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.

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A Relatively Narrow Complex Tachycardia at a Rate of 180.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is a letter to the Editor I wrote in 2010 that was not accepted for publication: It Is Not Surprising that Beta Blockade is not Dangerous in the Setting of Cocaine. The data in the paper by Rangel et al. is intuitive, and not surprising. style='mso-element:field-begin'> ADDIN EN.CITE Rangel 1853 1853 17 Rangel, C. Marcus, G. Gibler, W.

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HeartFlow Achieves Landmark Milestone of 250,000 Patients Assessed for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) with FFRCT Analysis

DAIC

With more than 500 peer-reviewed publications, the HeartFlow FFR CT Analysis remains unparalleled in precision coronary care, as supported by the ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines, to improve treatment plans and outcomes. NEJM 2010. 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines. Arbab-Zadeh, Heart Int 2012. Yokota, et al.

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A Patient with Vertigo

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The combination of absence of chest pain and history of LV aneurysm made it easy to assess that this patient does not have acute OMI. At this point — I learned a bit more about today's patient: The patient is a man who had an inferior STEMI in 2010. We know today's patient had a documented inferior STEMI in 2010.