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BioCardia’s CardiAMP Cell Therapy Chronic Myocardial Ischemia Trial Results Show Patient Benefits in Important Outcomes

DAIC

a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, today announced the primary endpoint results of the open label roll-in cohort of the CardiAMP Cell Therapy in Chronic Myocardial Ischemia Trial. Getty Images milla1cf Thu, 05/02/2024 - 10:12 May 2, 2024 — BioCardia, Inc. ,

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

[link] A 30 year-old woman was brought to the ED with chest pain. She had given birth a week ago, and she had similar chest pain during her labor. She attributed the chest pain to anxiety and stress, saying "I'm just an anxious person." This strongly suggests reperfusing RCA ischemia.

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Right precordial ST depression in a patient with chest pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A 70-year-old man calls 911 after experiencing sudden, severe chest pain. Computer read: "Non-specific ST abnormality, consider anterior subendocardial ischemia" There are very poor R-waves in V1-V4 suggesting old anterior MI. Firstly, subendocardial ischemia does not localize on 12-Lead ECG. Neth Heart J.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

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. Thanks for reading Dr. The data is overwhelming every way you can possibly look at it.

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Is OMI an ECG Diagnosis?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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. But no ECG met STEMI criteria so the patient was referred to cardiology as Non-STEMI.

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Compare these two ECGs. Do either, neither, or both show anything important?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The Queen of Hearts correctly says: Smith : Why is this ECG which manifests so much ST Elevation NOT a STEMI (even if it were a 60 year old with chest pain)? Here is the clinical informaton on ECG 2: A man in his 50s presented to the Emergency Department with acute chest pain that started within the past few hours.

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ECG Blog #380 — What is "Swirl"?

Ken Grauer, MD

NOTE: It's important to correlate ongoing circumstances at the time that a prior tracing was done ( ie, Was the patient stable and asymptomatic — or were they having chest pain, an exacerbation of heart failure, or some other ongoing process at the time the prior ECG was recorded? ).

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