Bicuspid/Mitral, Chest Pain and Pericarditis

A woman in her 20s with syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Given her reported chest pain, shortness of breath, and syncope, an ECG was quickly obtained: What do you think? However, if you freeze the ultrasound clip and scroll forwards and backwards to find a time during the clip where the patient’s mitral valve is open, you know the heart is filling, and is therefore in diastole.

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Tachycardia Pericarditis Ultrasound Blood Pressure

Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Scenario 1 : The patient presents with 24 hours of substernal chest pain. The exception is with postinfarction pericarditis , in which a completed transmural infarct results in inflammation of the subepicardial myocardium and STE in the distribution of the infarct, and which results in increased STE and large upright T-waves.

Chest Pain

Chest Pain Pericarditis Myocardial Infarction Dementia

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A woman in her 20s with syncope

Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

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