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Acute chest pain and an abnormal ECG. Do precordial leads show benign T-wave inversion or ischemia?

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Written by Willy Frick A 51 year old man with hypertension presented with three hours of acute onset, severe midsternal chest pain associated with two episodes of nausea and vomiting. or 2) Inferior and lateral OMI that is beginning to reperfuse, even though the patient still has chest pain? ECG 1 What do you think?

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ECG Blog #453 — Is this Wellens' Syndrome?

Ken Grauer, MD

.: Cardiac cath was performed — and showed a distal LA D "culprit" lesion that was successfully stented. The following are the KEY clinical and ECG features that establish the diagnosis of W ellens ' S yndrome : There should be a history of prior chest pain that has resolved at the time the defining ECG is obtained.

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Quiz post: two patients with chest pain. Do either, both, or neither have OMI?

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Written by Pendell Meyers Two patients with acute chest pain. Patient 1: Patient 2: Patient 1: A man in his 40s with minimal medical history presented with acute chest pain radiating to his R shoulder. Two patients with chest pain. Do either, neither, or both have OMI and need reperfusion?

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A 50-something with chest pain.

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This was sent by anonymous The patient is a 55-year-old male who presented to the emergency department after approximately 3 to 4 days of intermittent central boring chest pain initially responsive to nitroglycerin, but is now more constant and not responsive to nitroglycerin. It is unknown when this pain recurred and became constant.

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ECG Blog #392 — Repolarization T Waves?

Ken Grauer, MD

As discussed in many posts in this ECG Blog — despite not satisfying the millimeter-based definition of a STEMI — in this patient with new chest pain, the ECG findings in Figure-1 merit prompt cath lab activation without any need to wait for serum troponin to return elevated ( See ECG Blog #193 — regarding the new "OMI" paradigm ).

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What happened after the Cath lab was activated for a chest pain patient with this ECG?

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The patient was a middle-aged female who had acute chest pain of approximately 6 hours duration. The pain was still active at the time of evaluation. Angiogram reportedly showed acute thrombotic occlusion of the first obtuse marginal which was stented. Peak troponin was not recorded. Long term follow up is unavailable.

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Chest pain and Saddleback STE. For Which of these 6 Cases should we Activate the cath lab? And how does the Queen of Hearts perform?

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All of the patients contacted EMS due to acute onset chest pain. The above ECG is from a 70 something male with chest pain. ECG #2 Case 2 : The above ECG was obtained from a diabetic 45 year old smoker with chest pain. Following the improvement in the ECG the patient's pain too improved drastically.