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Chest pain, resolved. Does it need emergent cath lab activation (some controversy here)? And much much more.

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A 50-something male with hypertension and 20- to 40-year smoking history presented with 1 week of stuttering chest pain that is worse with exertion, which takes many minutes to resolve after resting and never occurs at rest. At times the pain does go to his left neck. It is a ssociated with mild dyspnea on exertion.

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A 50-something with chest pain. Is there OMI? And what is the rhythm?

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Written by Willy Frick A man in his 50s with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a 30 pack-year smoking history presented to the ER with 1 hour of acute onset, severe chest pain and diaphoresis. His ECG is shown: What do you think? What do you think?

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5 Cardiologists said this is not a STEMI. But was it an OMI?

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Written by Pendell Meyers A male in his early 50s presented with waxing and waning chest pain starting at rest. Although I do not see much difference between the ECGs, for some reason (perhaps ongoing pain or rising troponins) the case was reevaluated at this time and the decision was made to perform cath.

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Inferior Subtle ST elevation: straight ST segment, but also no reciprocal ST depression in aVL: which is more important?

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60-something with h/o MI and stents presented with chest pain radiating to the back and nausea/vomiting. It was stented. The patient had a p rior h istory of MI + stents. Time zero What do you think? There is inferior ST elevation. Is it normal variant? Is it ischemic (OMI)? Pericarditis?

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3 days of shoulder and chest pain, and now cardiogenic shock

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There is new data showing better outcomes when bystander lesions (non-culprit) are stented. == MY Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 8/28/2020 ): == Dr. Smith highlights a number of important lessons to be learned from today’s case. Initial priorities in this patient were clearly to determine the anatomy — and reestablish coronary perfusion.

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A young patient with diminishing pain with a subtle but diagnostic ECG.

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Case A 39-year-old male without prior medical history presents with chest pain that started 2 hours prior to presentation. He says that the pain intensity was 10/10 at home but now about 4/10. Despite the clinical stability and decreasing pain, this patient needs an immediate angiogram. Here are his publications.)