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Submitted by anonymous, written by Pendell Meyers A woman in her 50s presented to the Emergency Department with chestpain and shortness of breath that woke her from sleep, with diaphoresis. See these other cases of arterial pulse tapping artifact: A 60 year old with chestpain Are these Hyperacute T-waves?
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Whether you’re gearing up for your Family Medicine or Cardiology Board Exam, you’ll need to master the topic of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM). He has never had any chestpain. Explanation: Shown electrocardiogram suggests left ventricular hypertrophy. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is one of them.
She reports a known history of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and is on daily beta blocker therapy. Cardiology felt her chestpain to be, most likely, the result of coronary supply-demand mismatch in the context of HCM endothelial remodeling (i.e. Below are two examples of this.
She denied chestpain and denied feeling any palpitations, even during her triage ECG: What do you think? Overall CMR findings are consistent with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. 1211-1212 CrossRef View Record in Scopus Google Scholar 2 FI Marcus, W Zareba The electrocardiogram in right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia.
An electrocardiogram is a machine used to record the heart's electrical activity. If you experience any symptoms, such as chestpain, dizziness, unusual tiredness or fatigue, shortness of breath, or irregular heartbeat, your doctor would want you to go for an ECG test to find out the underlying cause.
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A Deep Neural Network learning algorithm outperforms a conventional algorithm for emergency department electrocardiogram interpretation. But lead V2 has a worrisome amount of ST elevation, and in a chestpain patient, I would be worried about STEMI. I do research on Cardiologs' algorithm: Smith SW et al. What an honor.
Acute chestpain and a bizarre ECG Bizarre (Hyperacute??) Electromechanical association: a subtle electrocardiogram artifact. It may be that it is much more common than we think but just not recognized. We have posted Pulse Tapping Artifact 3 times before: I was shown this ECG without any information. What do you think?
The diagnosis was made based on classic findings of inflammation on an electrocardiogram associated with acute chestpain. 2-3 days after this he developed the same sharp chestpain and shortness of breath with elevated inflammatory markers (CRP) as well as typical findings of pericarditis seen on ECG.
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