Biomarkers Chest Pain Heart attacks 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
AUGUST 9, 2024
Written by Colin Jenkins and Nhu-Nguyen Le with edits by Willy Frick and by Smith A 46-year-old male presented to the emergency department with 2 days of heavy substernal chest pain and nausea. He reported a history of “Wolf-Parkinson-White” and “heart attack” but said neither had been treated. Is there STEMI?
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. Thanks for reading Dr. The data is overwhelming every way you can possibly look at it.
CardiacWire
APRIL 24, 2024
One study revealed that a quarter of all ED visitors underwent a troponin test, even though less than half of them had chest pain. Another study showed that roughly one in seven ED patients had elevated troponin, even though they weren’t experiencing an MI, in part because troponin can be a sign of other non-coronary diseases.
Dr. Anish Koka
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Cardiac Cath labs waiting for some major influx of COVID heart damage not only didn’t see patients presenting with COVID heart attacks, but they idled as patients terrified of coming to the hospital stayed home rather than come to the hospital with chest pain.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MARCH 2, 2009
male presents because he "thought he might be having a heart attack." Pain worsened and became sharper after lifting a bookcase up the stairs. He continued to have worsening pain and diaphoresis, and associated left arm pain down to the fingers. The pain is very nitroglycerine responsive.
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