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This is a previously healthy male teenager who was awoken by chestpain. The pain is described as located in the midsternal area, radiating to the right arm, described as 8-9/10 and worse with deep inspirations. In the evening, he became diaphoretic and complained of 9/10 continuous chestpain.
There was apparently no syncope and he had no bony injuries, but he did complain of left sided chestpain. His chest was tender. A bedside cardiac ultrasound was normal. An ECG was recorded: Avinash was understandably confused by this ECG. He wrote: "ECG 1 - shows wide ???IVCD IVCD type rhythm ??
He denied chestpain or shortness of breath. In the clinical context of weakness and fever, without chestpain or shortness of breath, the likelihood of Brugada pattern is obviously much higher. Pediatric and elderly patients were more predisposed to developing an arrhythmic event in the setting of fever [7].
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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.
There was no chestpain. This was written by Magnus Nossen The patient is a female in her 50s. She presented with a one week hx of «dizziness» and weakness. She was feeling fine prior to the last seven days. She did admit to shortness of breath on exertion. She had no known heart condition.
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It was from a patient with chestpain: Note the obvious Brugada pattern. Pediatric and elderly patients were more predisposed to developing an arrhythmic event in the setting of fever [7]. The elevated troponin was attributed to either type 2 MI or to non-MI acute myocardial injury. There is no further workup at this time.
the optimum QT correction formula for patients with chestpain was found to be unique for each individual ; it is a correction factor that can be calculated real-time for each patient by taking multiple measurements over a range of heart rates. Other Research: According to this study b y Batchvarov et al. ,
Acute coronary syndrome in a pediatric patient? days of chestpain that started as substernal and crushing in nature awakening him from sleep and occasionally traveling to right side of neck. The pain was described as constant, worse with deep inspiration and physical activity, sometimes sharp. World J Pediatr.
The patient denied any chestpain whatsoever, and a troponin at zero and 2 hours were both undetectable. Types 2 and 3 have been merged into Type 2 and look substantially different. Is this Type 2 Brugada syndrome/ECG pattern? This was recorded about 30 minutes later: Same A previous ECG was obtained and was normal.
She did not even need to ask in this case, because even if the patient presented with chestpain, she would call it NEGATIVE. Fortunately, the physicians seeing the patient were using the Queen of Hearts PM Cardio AI ECG OMI Model, and she had absolutely no concerns.
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