Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Authors' commentary: Cardiogenic shock in the setting of severe aortic stenosis. This patient’s severe aortic stenosis (AS) and associated severe cardiogenic shock likely created the ECG pattern, resulting in a very difficult challenge for our inpatient team. If you can use Doppler, then you can diagnose it. Circulation.

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Ischemia Cardiogenic Shock Aortic Stenosis 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 8, 2023

American Heart Journal 170(6):1255-1264; December 2015. Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Presence of Left Bundle Branch Block using the ST Elevation to S-Wave Ratio in a Modified Sgarbossa Rule. Why is there this notion that myocardial infarction cannot be diagnosed in the setting of ventricular paced rhythm?

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Chest Pain Myocardial Infarction STEMI Pacemaker 52

Open Heart

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Methods A large-scale cohort study of patients with ST-elevation/non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (MI)/unstable angina underwent coronary angiography (January 2015–December 2019). Patients were classified as older (≥75 years) and younger (≤74 years). vs 86.2%, p<0.001).

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Cardiogenic Shock Myocardial Infarction Outcomes Angina 40