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A man in his late 30s with acute chest pain and ST elevation

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Sent by Dan Singer MD, written by Meyers, edits by Smith A man in his late 30s presented with acute chest pain and normal vitals except tachycardia at about 115 bpm. There is a reasonable chance of pericarditis in this case, or this could be a baseline." And this is because OMI is frequently misdiagnosed as pericarditis.

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A Patient with Respiratory Failure and a Computer "Normal" ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

You do NOT see this in normal variant STE, nor in pericarditis. Here is data from a study we published in 2014 for type II NonSTEMI: Sandoval Y. In such cases, it is common for tachycardia to exaggerate the ST Elevation And, in fact, there was no new acute MI at this visit - troponins did not rise again. First was 2.9