Chest Pain Pericarditis Stent 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 29, 2024
Written by Pendell Meyers Two patients with acute chest pain. Patient 1: Patient 2: Patient 1: A man in his 40s with minimal medical history presented with acute chest pain radiating to his R shoulder. Two patients with chest pain. Do either, neither, or both have OMI and need reperfusion?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
AUGUST 6, 2024
Written by Magnus Nossen with Edits by Grauer and Smith The ECGs in today’s case are from 3 different patients all presenting with new-onset CP ( Chest Pain ). These latter findings are typical of pericarditis, but pericarditis never has reciprocal ST depression. This is OMI until proven otherwise.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The 50-something patient with history of coronary stenting and slightly reduced LV ejection fraction. In the setting of prior stenting and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, would pursue a heart team revascularization approach Syntax score 28.5, Pericarditis would be even more unlikely in someone without chest pain.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 19, 2019
Written by Pendell Meyers, with edits by Steve Smith A man in his early 40s with history of MI s/p PCI presented with bilateral anterior chest pain described as burning and belching with no radiation since last night starting around 11pm (roughly 11 hours ago). The patient was still with ongoing chest pain at the time ECG #1 was done.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Recall from this post referencing this study that "reciprocal STD in aVL is highly sensitive for inferior OMI (far better than STEMI criteria) and excludes pericarditis, but is not specific for OMI." See this case: Persistent Chest Pain, an Elevated Troponin, and a Normal ECG. Here is the angiogram after stent placement.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Written by Willy Frick A 40 year old woman was at home cooking when she developed chest pain. You can easily imagine this patient getting one of several diagnoses -- vasospasm, MINOCA , pericarditis, or maybe even no diagnosis at all beyond "non-obstructive coronary artery disease." She took an oxycodone and called EMS.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
A 50 something-year-old man with a history of newly diagnosed hypertension and diabetes, for which he did not take any medication, presented a non-PCI-capable center with a vague, but central chest pain. Such an out-of-proportion STE is virtually never seen in pericarditis. STE in lead I and II are more subtle.
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