HCM Beat

JANUARY 7, 2023

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) has had a moment in the public eye this week. Damar Hamlin's misfortune shined a public light on the grim reality that we as HCM patients live with every day: the possibility we could suffer an SCA at any moment without warning.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), a rare condition characterized by non-caseating granulomas, can manifest with symptoms such as atrioventricular block and ventricular tachycardia (VT), as well as mimic inherited cardiomyopathies. A 58-year-old woman presented with sustained VT with a prior diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2013

What is the utility of a head CT in cardiac arrest? We found intracranial hemorrhage in 2% of non-traumatic cardiac arrest patients, and in 4 others the presence of cerebral edema changed management. in Vienna found that 27 of 765 (4%) of out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) were due to SAH.

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DAIC

MAY 31, 2024

High profile cases of sudden cardiac arrest in elite athletes in recent years has reminded the cardiology community of the challenging questions posed to cardiologists in these settings. Questions like: How do we prevent cardiac arrest in athletes? Can an athlete return to play after cardiac arrest?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

And of course Ken's comments at the bottom) An elderly obese woman with cardiomyopathy, Left bundle branch block, and chronic hypercapnea presented hypoxic with altered mental status. Bedside cardiac ultrasound showed moderately decreased LV function. See this post: How a pause can cause cardiac arrest 2. The plan: 1.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) manifests as infiltrative cardiomyopathy and predisposes to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which can occur in about two-thirds of the patients with CA. An electrocardiogram (ECG) can be used as a readily available and affordable method that could assist in the risk stratification of the disease.

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Cardiomyopathies: These diseases affect the heart muscle, impairing its ability to pump blood effectively. Mutations in specific genes often cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. How Do Genetic Factors Work?

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HeartRhythm

OCTOBER 27, 2024

It usually affects older patients suffering from coronary artery disease and cardiomyopathies. In cardiac arrest survivors, ventricular fibrillation (VF) is almost always the arrhythmic disorder identified at the time of the event.

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HCM Beat

JANUARY 12, 2023

TMZ is reporting that singer Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, suffered a cardiac arrest at her home and is now at a local hospital.

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MIBHS

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyopathy is a condition that affects the heart muscle, causing it to become enlarged, thick, or rigid. Excessive Alcohol or Drug Use Long-term abuse of alcohol or certain drugs can weaken the heart muscle, resulting in cardiomyopathy and eventually cardiomegaly.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Introduction:Stress Induced Cardiomyopathy is increasingly becoming more prevalent with increasing awareness about disease condition with annual incidence of 30 cases/100000 per year and an incidence of 1-2% in the patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome.[1] for stress induced cardiomyopathy and found 10450 patients in the data base.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

As per my review of this subject ( Check out My Comment at the bottom of the page in the November 16, 2023 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog ) — the 3 most common Causes of ACS ( A cute C oronary S yndrome ) with a "negative" cath are: i ) Myocarditis; ii ) Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; and , iii ) MINOCA.

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Ken Grauer, MD

JULY 29, 2023

The ECG in Figure-1 was obtained from an 18-year old woman — who moments before been resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Does this ECG in Figure-1 provide clue(s) to the etiology of this patient's cardiac arrest? I suspected the answer resides in the reason why an 18-year woman might have a cardiac arrest.

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Ken Grauer, MD

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Shortly after arrival in the ED ( E mergency D epartment ) — she suffered a cardiac arrest. BUT — Cardiac catheterization done a little later did not reveal any significant stenosis. Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case — obtained after successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest. ( No CP ( C hest P ain ).

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, Ahead of Print.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This list takes on new relevance given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic — which predisposes to acute thrombotic events, stress cardiomyopathy ( Takotsubo ), infarction/ischemia and myocarditis. But a look at Figure-2 reminds us of a long list of additional entities to consider!

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Although one may have all kinds of ischemic findings as a result of cardiac arrest (rather than cause of cardiac arrest), this degree of ST elevation and HATW is all but diagnostic of acute proximal LAD occlusion. This prompted cath lab activation. On arrival to the ED, this ECG was recorded: What do you think?

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:Despite the role of cardiac catheterization for hemodynamic assessment and endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) in children with cardiomyopathy, data on procedure-related major adverse events (MAE) in this population is lacking. We aim to describe the rate of MAE in children with cardiomyopathy undergoing cardiac catheterization.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Introduction The use of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) has emerged as a treatment option for selected patients who are experiencing refractory cardiac arrest (CA). Results Out of the 377 patients included in the study, 69 (21%) were female.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

MARCH 8, 2024

Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are enrolled in the national Cardiac Inherited Diseases Registry New Zealand. Thirteen probands (4%) presented with sudden death and 19 (6%) with cardiac arrest. Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Aotearoa/New Zealand has a multiethnic population.

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Circulation

JANUARY 24, 2024

METHODS:The AHA, through its Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee, continuously monitors and evaluates sources of data on heart disease and stroke in the United States and globally to provide the most current information available in the annual Statistical Update with review of published literature through the year before writing.

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Heart Sisters

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Cardiac research scientist Dr. Sian Harding, on Takotsubo syndrome: "Natural disasters resulting in catastrophic stress almost always see a rise in both cardiac arrest and this mysterious heart condition."

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Open Heart

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Patients were classified by CVD type: adult congenital heart disease, cardiac arrest, connective tissue disease with aortopathy, ischaemic cardiomyopathy, non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy or valve disease. We examined demographic, anaesthetic and procedure-related variables and in-hospital maternal and fetal outcomes.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Edited by Bracey, Meyers, Grauer, and Smith A 50-something-year-old female with a history of an unknown personality disorder and alcohol use disorder arrived via EMS following cardiac arrest with return of spontaneous circulation. The described rhythm was an irregular, wide complex rhythm.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 17, 2024

And pretty much every doctor can recall an event where a patient experienced a suddenly stressful event and had a cardiac event. That event might have been a heart rhythm issue or even a cardiac arrest. In the hours after the 911 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the rates of cardiac arrest more than doubled.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This phenomenon has been associated with cardiac arrest; after cardiac surgery; post-cardioversion following a sustained tachyarrhythmia; with certain types of acute cerebrovascular events ( such as subarachnoid hemorrhage ) — and , in association with large acute MI , which could potentially be the clinical scenario in today's case!

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Wellnest

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cardiac arrest Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency in which the heart stops pumping blood to the body. Electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, and some other tests are done for patients with cardiac arrest. If the vital organs do not get their blood supply back quickly, it can lead to death.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between the treatment groups and hospital readmission within 90 days.Results:Only 517 AA met inclusion criteria and did not meet exclusion criteria, which included a history of valvular heart disease, hypertrophic or restrictive cardiomyopathy, active myocarditis, history of cardiac arrest, and (..)

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Wellnest

JUNE 19, 2023

Video-based AI A profound learning approach is created with a video-based neural system that utilizes a current database of video formats to determine cardiac issues. The deep learning algorithm helps segment the left ventricle predicting cardiomyopathy and ejection fraction. AI recognizing cardiac arrests in emergency calls.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

CHD was the pre-PHT diagnosis in 21(62%) of stroke Pts, cardiomyopathy in 12(35%) and acquired heart disease in 1(3%). Data are presented as frequency (%) or median (Inter Quartile Range-IQR).Results:Of Median age of HT in these Pts was 6 yrs(1,13) (Table 1), 21(62%) were male.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It is apparently fortunate that she had a cardiac arrest; otherwise, her ECG would have been ignored. by making it clear to everyone that this is NOT an EKG that one sees with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The impact of ST-segment elevation on the prognosis of patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

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Ken Grauer, MD

APRIL 9, 2023

As discussed in ECG Blog #108 — AIVR generally occurs in one of the following C linical S ettings : i ) As a rhythm during cardiac arrest; ii ) In the monitoring phase of acute MI ( especially with inferior MI ) ; or , iii ) As a reperfusion arrhythmia ( ie, following thrombolysis, acute angioplasty, or spontaneous reperfusion ).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

As always, takotsubo cardiomyopathy and focal pericarditis can mimic OMI, but takotsubo almost never mimics posterior MI, and both are diagnoses of exclusion after a negative cath. About two hours after admission, he suffered a cardiac arrest (whether it was VF/VT or PEA is not available) and expired.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A 50-something with severe chest pain and a normal ECG 30 Year Old with Cardiac Arrest, PEA, then Cardiac Ultrasound = Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 12/18 /2022 ): = I thought the initial ECG in today's case ( which I've reproduced in Figure-1 ) — to be "eye-catching".

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

If a patient presents with chest pain and a normal heart rate, or with shockable cardiac arrest, then ischemic appearing ST elevation is STEMI until proven otherwise. Thus, there is a wall motion abnormality in the distribution of the LAD (not global apical dyskinesis, as in takostubo).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

NOTE #3: In the context of a long QTc or ischemia — the finding of ST segment and/or T wave alternans may predict the occurrence of malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The most important clinical entity associated with motion alternans is large pericardial effusion — though motion alternans has also been observed in some cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Conduction and Refractoriness Alternans — entails variance of impulse propagation along some par t of the conduction system.

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