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How To Reverse Coronary Artery Disease With Lifestyle Measures

Dr. Paddy Barrett

All patients had CT coronary angiograms at the start of the study and repeated after about one year. 4 Coronary atheroma regression and plaque characteristics assessed by grayscale and radiofrequency intravascular ultrasound after aerobic exercise. 2014 Nov 15;114(10):1504-11. Springer, Cham. Am J Cardiol.

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90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

We investigated the incidence of an acutely occluded coronary in patients presenting with STE-aVR with multi-lead ST depression. Methods STEMI activations between January 2014 and April 2018 at the University of Arizona Medical Center were identified. A emergent cardiology consult can be helpful for equivocal cases.

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Smith comment: This patient did not have a bedside ultrasound. Had one been done, it would have shown a feature that is apparent on this ultrasound (however, this patient's LV function would not be as good as in this clip): This is recorded with the LV on the right. Aortic angiogram did not reveal aortic dissection.