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What does the angiogram show? The Echo? The CT coronary angiogram? How do you explain this?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Post cath ECG: Now there are hyperacute T-waves again, and recurrent ST depression in V2 This ECG would normally diagnostic of OMI until proven otherwise No further troponins were measured, but it looks like there is recurrent OMI Next day: A CT Coronary Angiogram was done (CTCA) CARDIAC MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION: 1. IMPRESSION: 1.

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Abstract 4139677: A rare case of ventriculobronchial fistula caused by an epicardial defibrillator patch

Circulation

She had idiopathic ventricular fibrillation in 1992, treated with an EPD (Picture 1A), later replaced by a transvenous ICD.She was diagnosed with left femoral deep venous thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary embolism and started on therapeutic anticoagulation. Despite empiric bronchial artery embolization, hemoptysis persisted.

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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

CT angiogram chest: no aortic dissection or pulmonary embolism. Young people can suffer acute coronary occlusion, whether by typical atherosclerotic plaque rupture, or by coronary anomalies, coronary aneurysms, dissections, spasm, etc. No further troponins were measured. Was this coincidence? —