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An elderly male with shortness of breath

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Then the patient's pain then resolved spontaneously after 2 sublingual nitroglycerine and another ECG was recorded ECG 2 at 16 minutes ST ELEVATION CONSISTENT WITH INJURY, PERICARDITIS, OR EARLY REPOLARIZATION Overread same Smith : The T-waves are now MUCH smaller. The S-wave is reconstituted. The inferior findings are much less pronounced.

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Initial Reperfusion T-waves, Followed by Pseudonormalization. Diagnosis?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Post-infarction Regional Pericarditis (PIRP) PIRP happens when MI is transmural, all the way from subendocardium to subepicardium, thus leading to inflammation of the subepicardium (next to the pericardium). MYOCARDIAL RUPTURE AND POSTINFARCTION REGIONAL PERICARDITIS KEY POINTS · Myocardial rupture occurs in 1 to 1.5% Re-occlusion 2.