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LVH with anterior ST Elevation. When is it anterior STEMI?

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All these factors, again, support an ECG diagnosis of LVH The patient was nonetheless taken for emergency angiography, and a 99% mid-LAD lesion was found and stented. Is LVH like left ventricular aneurysm? Electrocardiographic criteria to differentiate acute anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction from left ventricular aneurysm.

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What can you find with continuous ST monitoring in the ED?

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His initial high sensitivity troponin I returned at 1300 ng/L and given that his cardiac workup was otherwise unremarkable, a CT was obtained to evaluate for pulmonary embolism and aortic aneurysm or dissection but this too was unrevealing. Another EKG was also obtained. ECG at time 82 minutes: What do you think?