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Abstract 4134483: How succesfully can we presribe the 'four pillars' of medications for patients with heart failure with reduced LV systolic function?

Circulation

Reasons for not prescibing or discontinuing were: CKD 6, severe aortic stenosis 5, asthma 3, symptomatic bradycardia 5, hypotension 3, type1 diabetes 2, syncope 1, Raynauds 1, patient choice 8 and 6 patients died before all appropriate medications could be initiated. In 10 cases no clinical reason could be identified.It

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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today's case is a male in his 70s with hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus. Below is a still image with the red arrow indicating the subtotal LMCA stenosis. His wife contacted the ambulance service after the patient experienced an episode of loss of consciousness.

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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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 LAD has diffuse disease with a few areas of moderate stenosis but no flow-limiting lesions. The following ECG was obtained.

Angina 121
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Is this ECG diagnostic of coronary occlusion? Also: Inferior de Winter's T-waves on prehospital ECG??

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

found that such ECG findings only represented left main ACS in 14% of such ECGs: Only 23% of patients with the aVR STE pattern had any LM disease (fewer if defined as 50% stenosis). Biphasic T-waves in a Middle-Aged Male with Vomiting Diabetic Ketoacidosis: is there hypokalemia? You probably think it is left main. No, hypokalemia.