Chest Pain Heart Disease Ischemia 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
2 middle aged males presented with chest pain. Which had the more severe chest pain at the time of the ECG? Patient 2 at the bottom with a very subtle OMI complained of 10/10 chest pain at the time the ECG was recorded. 414 patients were included in the analysis.
DAIC
MARCH 28, 2024
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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 29, 2017
He had had several episodes of pain since onset; it was described as pressure-like and lasts about 5-15 minutes and resolves spontaneously. He had been pain free for about an hour. He had some "pre-diabetes ," but no h/o hypertension, no known family history of heart disease, and he smokes about 1-2 cigarettes per day.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 23, 2023
Submitted and written by Megan Lieb, DO with edits by Bracey, Smith, Meyers, and Grauer A 50-ish year old man with ICD presented to the emergency department with substernal chest pain for 3 hours prior to arrival. J Am Heart Assoc. At this time he reported ongoing chest pain and was given aspirin and nitroglycerin.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 5, 2023
The patient has acute chest pain. Here was my answer: "Not ischemia. If not HCM — some unusual form of cardiomyopathy might explain the findings in today's ECG (ie, muscular dystrophy; infiltrative heart disease from amyloid or sarcoid; some unusual form of congenital heart disease, etc. ).
Ken Grauer, MD
APRIL 14, 2023
The ECG in Figure-1 was obtained from a 90-year old woman — who presented with a 2-to-3 day history of chest pain, that became worse on the day of admission. The terminology favored to describe these ECG findings is diffuse subendocardial ischemia ( See ECG Blog #271 — for more on diffuse subendocardial ischemia ).
Dr. Paddy Barrett
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
One of the most common questions I get is, “ Do I need a stent to treat my heart disease?” Ischemia Trial In an attempt to clarify this question, a similar trial was done called the Ischemia Trial, which had important differences to the Courage trial but again tried to answer a similar question 3.
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