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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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An undergraduate who is an EKG tech sees something. The computer calls it completely normal. How about the physicians?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Diagnosis of Type I vs. Type II Myocardial Infarction in Emergency Department patients with Ischemic Symptoms (abstract 102). So the patient was admitted to the hospital with no plan for an angiogram. Instead he had an angiogram at 0800 on day 3. Murakami MM. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2011; Suppl 58(4): S211.

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Distractions

EMS 12-Lead

He denied any known medical history, specifically: coronary artery disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart failure, myocardial infarction, or any prior PCI/stent. Learning points 1] Acute Coronary Syndrome has many shades of clinical manifestation. Breath sounds were clear in all lung fields.

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Chest pain, shortness of breath, T wave inversion, and rising troponin in a young healthy runner.

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Ct coronary angiogram showed normal coronary arteries. Smith note: I think CT coronary angiogram is reasonable with the elevated troponins and symptoms. The important point for our purposes is that they do no represent myocardial infarction. He was diagnosed with mild AKI which resolved.

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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

EMS 12-Lead

This worried the crew of potential acute coronary syndrome and STEMI was activated pre-hospital. When OMI is captured in this early phase, there exists the highest amount of salvageable myocardium and least likelihood of heart failure at hospital discharge. Smith comment : V5 and V6 are excessively discordant!!!! 40; 1234-1241.

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90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?

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Incidence of an acute coronary occlusion. New insights into the use of the 12-lead electrocardiogram for diagnosing acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department. Incidence of an Acute Coronary Occlusion. All electrocardiograms (ECGs) and coronary angiograms were blindly analyzed by experienced cardiologists.

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

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The diagnostic coronary angiogram identified only minimal coronary artery disease, but there was a severely calcified, ‘immobile’ aortic valve. Aortic angiogram did not reveal aortic dissection. myocardial infarction), arrhythmias, valvular pathology, shunts, or outflow obstructions.