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See what happens when a left main thrombus evolves from subtotal occlusion to total occlusion.

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Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today's case is a male in his 70s with hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus. He woke up alert and with chest pain which he also had experienced intermittently over the previous few days. The syncope lasted about 2-3 minutes according to his wife.

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Three normal high sensitivity troponins over 4 hours with a "normal ECG"

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Written by Willy Frick A 46 year old man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to urgent care with complaint of "chest burning." The ECG shows sinus bradycardia but is otherwise normal. The patient said his chest pain was 4/10, down from 8/10 on presentation. The following ECG was obtained.

Angina 121
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Syncope and Block

EMS 12-Lead

In isolation, however, syncope does not hold significant weight for OMI – as opposed to something like crushing chest discomfort, for example – although stereotypical ACS might become blurry in both the elderly and diabetic populations. 2] Although the clinical context in today’s case does not fit these descriptors for Type I OMI (e.g.

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Is this ECG diagnostic of coronary occlusion? Also: Inferior de Winter's T-waves on prehospital ECG??

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He has a history of known CAD, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Here is his previous ECG: This was my interpretation of the first ECG: Sinus bradycardia with less than 1mm ST elevation in V4-V6, elevated compared to the previous ECG, suggestive of lateral MI. By pure clinical appearance, he looked like the textbook patient with acute MI.

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Diffuse ST depression, and ST elevation in aVR. Left main, right?

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Palpitations in a Young Healthy Male A pathognomonic ECG you should recognize instantly A middle-aged man with severe syncope, diffuse weakness Chest pain and Diffuse ST depression, with STE in aVR. Biphasic T-waves in a Middle-Aged Male with Vomiting Diabetic Ketoacidosis: is there hypokalemia? Are These Wellens' Waves??