Angina Angioplasty Chest Pain 
Med Page Today
MAY 19, 2024
(MedPage Today) -- PARIS -- Whether a person had chest pains resolved by angioplasty hinged on the nature, not the severity, of their presenting symptoms, an ORBITA-2 analysis showed. Investigators found two groups more likely to benefit from.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
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. Am Heart J.
DAIC
MAY 2, 2024
Results from the open label roll-in cohort of patients having chronic myocardial ischemia with refractory angina showed an average increase in exercise tolerance of 107 seconds and an average of 82% reduction in angina episodes at the primary six-month follow-up endpoint compared to before receiving the study treatment.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 28, 2018
He had suffered a couple bouts of typical chest pain in the last 24 hours. This ECG (ECG #3) was recorded immediately after the last episode of pain spontaneously resolved. The pain had lasted about one hour. Case A 40-something male presented to triage. There are classic Wellens' waves in V2-V5. Am Heart J. Am Heart J.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 18, 2024
Written by Jesse McLaren A 70 year old with prior MIs and stents to LAD and RCA presented to the emergency department with 2 weeks of increasing exertional chest pain radiating to the left arm, associated with nausea. 1] European guidelines add "regardless of biomarkers". But only 6.4%
Dr. Anish Koka
MAY 16, 2023
This means that at every age, the probability a man complaining of chest pain has significant underlying coronary disease as a cause of this chest pain is much higher than a woman complaining of chest pain. The results of this dataset by age and gender follow.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MARCH 9, 2013
This male in his 40's had been having intermittent chest pain for one week. He awoke from sleep with crushing central chest pain and called ems. EMS recorded a 12-lead, then gave 2 sublingual nitros with complete relief of pain. Type B waves are deeper and symmetric. Lessons: 1. de Zwaan C., Janssen J.H.A.,
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