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What factor determines final diagnosis of STEMI vs. NSTEMI? Is it ST Elevation? Occlusion? or Something else? What?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Despite apparently hearing the above history together with two diagnostic ECGs and a troponin compatible with OMI, the cardiologist thought the ECG represented pericarditis and recommended echocardiogram. Echocardiogram was finally performed five hours after the first diagnostic ECG. Here is the wall motion diagram.

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