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Tombstone Pattern Electrocardiogram in a Young Woman

JAMA Cardiology

Electrocardiogram results showed sinus tachycardia, QRS widening, low-voltage complexes, and ST-segment elevation. A woman in her mid-20s presented with acute fever, chest pain, and exertional dyspnea. What would you do next?

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Management of acute coronary syndrome in resource-limited set up: a summary of 4-year review of two hospitals in Ethiopia

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This results in severe chest pain or discomfort, with the subsequent release of cardiac biomarkers, and alterations in the electrocardiogram. It can cause diminished heart function and mortality if not treated properly with suitable measures. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention was performed for 12.3% The average hospital stay was 8.51 (SD7.2)

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Operative therapy for cardiac arrhythmias: Setting the stage for catheter ablation

HeartRhythm

Notwithstanding many insightful observations, the electrocardiogram (ECG) arguably ignited the big bang in our understanding of cardiac arrhythmias. Using ECG recording and deductive reasoning, our teachers and predecessors classified the bradycardias and tachycardias and proposed many mechanisms, subsequently proven to be correct.

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Atrial fibrillation screening in Syrian patients reporting to the emergency department during the ongoing conflict: a cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Patients had routine 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) regardless of presenting complaints. The most common presenting complaints and ECG abnormality were trauma (44%) and sinus tachycardia (15%), respectively. Two cardiology consultants blindly verified ECG findings.

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Case report: Widely split P' waves in a patient with focal atrial tachycardia

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

However, widely split P' waves in focal atrial tachycardia (AT) on a surface electrocardiogram (ECG) have rarely been reported. An electrophysiological study showed that the tachycardia arose from the left atrial appendage (LAA) and was conducted through two distinct pathways.

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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She was awake, alert, well perfused, with normal mental status and overall unremarkable physical exam except for a regular tachycardia, possible rales at both bases, some mild RUQ abdominal tenderness. Thus, I believe it is a regular, monomorphic, wide complex tachycardia. Or it could simply still be classic VT. What is the Diagnosis?

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Right Atrium and Superior Vena Cava Macro-Reentrant Tachycardia Masquerading as Focal Tachycardia Originating from the Left Atrial Roof

HeartRhythm

A twelve-lead electrocardiogram revealed atrial tachycardia (AT) with a cycle length of 240 ms. A 77-year-old male with a history of two catheter ablation procedures, including pulmonary vein isolation and superior vena cava (SVC) isolation, presented with symptomatic palpitations.