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American College of Cardiology ACC.24 Late-breaking Science and Guidelines Session Summary

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ET Main Tent (Hall B1) This session offers more insights from key clinical trials presented at ACC.24 24 and find out what it all means for your patients.

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How does Acute Total Left Main Coronary occlusion present on the ECG?

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Post by Smith and Meyers Sam Ghali ( [link] ) just asked me (Smith): "Steve, do left main coronary artery *occlusions* (actual ones with transmural ischemia) have ST Depression or ST Elevation in aVR?" That said, complete LM occlusion would be expected to have subepicardial ischemia (STE) in these myocardial territories: STE vector 1.

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Right precordial ST depression in a patient with chest pain

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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. But the real question at hand is: Are these precordial ST-depressions a result of subendocardial ischemia?

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Is OMI an ECG Diagnosis?

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5] Back to the case The patient had serial ECGs over the next hour with no significant change: The first troponin came back at 1,400 ng/L (normal <26 in males and <16 in females), confirming MI – and the patient’s refractory ischemia indicated this was an Occlusion MI. Clin Cardiol 2022 4. Herman, Meyers, Smith et al.

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First ED ECG is Wellens' (pain free). What do you think the prehospital ECG showed (with pain)?

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For those who depend on echocardiogram to confirm the ECG findings of ischemia, this should be sobering. In this case, the duration of ischemia was so brief that there was no such evolution, and there was near-normalization. Wellens' syndrome represents a state of reperfusion of the infarct related artery 2. Lessons: 1.

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Precordial ST depression. What is the diagnosis?

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Precordial ST depression may be subendocardial ischemia or posterior STEMI. I have warned in the past that one must think of other etiologies of ischemia when there is tachycardia. Whether it is subendocardial ischemia or posterior STEMI, if you cannot get it to resolve, you must activate the cath lab. There is no ST elevation.

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Four anterior STEMIs: acute and reperfused vs. won't reperfuse, subacute and reperfused vs. not reperfused

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hours later, after PCI: There is a significant QS-wave in V2, with some persistent ST elevation, suggesting incomplete small vessel reperfusion and significant infarction. The patient continued to have ischemia after PCI, and in fact had an episode of polymorphic VT shortly after while in the ICU. This was recorded 2.5

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