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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Now you have ECG and troponin evidence of ischemia, AND ventricular dysrhythmia, which means this is NOT a stable ACS. Circulation. Circulation, 137(19), p.e523. (For those of you who are accustomed to the units of high sensitivity troponin (ng/L), this is equivalent to 20,956.00 Again, cath lab was not activated. 112.105718.

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How to wean off Beta-blockers

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

This is mainly seen in patients who were taking the beta blocker for angina due to significant coronary disease and in a few of these patients, stopping the beta blocker was associated with more angina and even development of heart attacks. This is termed as ‘Acute beta blocker withdrawal syndrome’.