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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Despite ongoing chest discomfort and an uptrending troponin, he never meets STEMI criteria. The full thickness infarction with LV aneurysm morphology places him at a higher risk for short and long term complications (e.g., Free wall rupture, VSD, Dresslers Syndrome, chronic CHF, anatomic LV aneurysm, LV thrombus, stroke, etc).