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. I do not see OMI here and all trops were only minimally elevated, consistent with either chronic injury from cardiomyopathy or with acute injury from sepsis.

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Tachycardia Cardiomyopathy Blog Bradycardia 117

MIBHS

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This may result in ischemia (lack of oxygen to the heart muscle), causing parts of the heart to weaken and enlarge. Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyopathy is a condition that affects the heart muscle, causing it to become enlarged, thick, or rigid. This condition often leads to heart failure, as the heart cannot effectively pump blood.

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Ken Grauer, MD

JANUARY 13, 2024

My written interpretation on a tracing such as this one would read, "Marked LVH and 'strain' and/or ischemia — with need for clinical correlation." BOTTOM LINE: ECG changes of LV "strain" and/or ischemia that we see on today's initial ECG — were not present 9 years earlier. Cardiac cath showed normal coronary arteries.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

There is ST elevation in V2 and V3 There are inverted T-waves in V2 and V3 There are prominent U-waves in V2 and V3 Many responders were worried about ischemia or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This short QT at least makes ischemia all but impossible. It is only to say that the ischemia is not represented on this ECG.

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Chest Pain Ischemia Myocardial Infarction Bradycardia 52

Wellnest

DECEMBER 21, 2022

However, an echocardiogram is a different test, also conducted for heart activity. Electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, and some other tests are done for patients with cardiac arrest. Poor blood supply Ischemia, or inadequate blood supply to the heart, is an abnormality that can be detected in an ECG test.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

MARCH 6, 2022

So cardiomyopathies, valve problems, myocarditis and previous heart attacks all cause a problem with the pumping function of the heart. Overall though a normal cardiac MRI is even more reassuring than a normal echocardiogram. These are therefore not looking for coronary disease but instead ischemia heart disease.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

by making it clear to everyone that this is NOT an EKG that one sees with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Hospital Course The patient was taken emergently to the cath lab which did not reveal any significant coronary artery disease, but she was noted to have reduced EF consistent with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

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