Echocardiogram Hospital Pericarditis 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
This rules out pericarditis, which essentially never has reciprocal ST depression. When flow is restored, wall motion may completely recover so that echocardiogram does not detect the previous ischemia. This is not pericarditis because: a. Pericarditis does not have reciprocal depression.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Hopefully a repeat echocardiogram will be performed outpatient. ECG of pneumopericardium and probable myocardial contusion shows typical pericarditis Male in 30's, 2 days after Motor Vehicle Collsion, complains of Chest Pain and Dyspnea Head On Motor Vehicle Collision. 1900: RBBB and LAFB are almost fully resolved. ST depression.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 17, 2024
Given his exertional chest pain and elevated troponin, the patient was admitted to the hospital for "NSTEMI" with a plan for left heart catheterization the next day. Echocardiogram showed severe RV dilation with McConnell’s sign and an elevated RVSP. Do you appreciate any dynamic changes compared to the patient’s prior EKG?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
AUGUST 6, 2024
These latter findings are typical of pericarditis, but pericarditis never has reciprocal ST depression. Despite active CP — cath lab activation was deferred and this patient was transported to a local hospital without PCI capability. Usually with pericarditis and myocarditis — hyperacute T waves (HATW) are not present.
Dr. Anish Koka
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
4 An accompanying editorial 5 notes “Data from COVID-Heart provide reassuring evidence that myocarditis, once predicted to be an emerging public health crisis attributable to COVID-19, is relatively uncommon even among hospitalized patients and is less virulent than predicted during the early days of the pandemic.
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