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Chest Pain and Inferior ST Elevation.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A middle-aged patient with lung cancer had presented to clinic complaining of generalized malaise, cough, and chest pain. There is sinus tachycardia. Symptoms other than chest pain (malaise, cough in a cancer patient) 2. Sinus tachycardia, which exaggerates ST segments and implies that there is another pathology.

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The Computer and Overreading Cardiologist call this completely normal. Is it?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

EKG initially negative but repeat shows a few T wave abnormalities… There is a chance this could be non-cardiac pain” At 1518, an echocardiogram showed normal LV size and systolic function with hypokinesis of the mid and distal anterior wall and the mid and distal septum. Smith: The Queen of Hearts diagnosed Not OMI with high confidence.