Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2019
mm has been described in normal subjects) Overall impression: In my opinion and experience, this ECG most likely represents a normal baseline ECG, but with a small chance of pericarditis instead. I texted this to Dr. Smith without any information, and this was his reply: "This could be pericarditis but probably is normal variant."
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 20, 2018
Clinician and EKG machine read of acute pericarditis. While it is true that inferior MI has ST depression in aVL 99% of the time (Bischof and Smith), and that inferolateral ST elevation is the most common distribution for pericarditis, the ST elevation in V3 has "terminal QRS distortion (TQRSD)," (diagnostic of LAD occlusion).
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Pericarditis refers to inflammation of the pericardium The pericardium is a sac within which the heart sits. Acute inflammation of this sac is known as acute pericarditis. About 5% of patients who present to A+E with chest pain which is not deemed to be a heart attack or angina are ultimately diagnosed with pericarditis.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MARCH 15, 2021
Here is the ECG: No ST Elevation Final Diagnosis: Pericarditis The fluid was nondiagnostic as to etiology of pericarditis. Here was his cardiac echo (remember, done 9 hours after the one above): Pericardial Effusion with Tamponade physiology, developed within 9 hours.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
1.196 x STE60 in V3 in mm) + (0.059 x computerized QTc) - (0.326 x RA in V4 in mm) Third, one can do an immediate cardiac ultrasound. This rules out pericarditis, which essentially never has reciprocal ST depression. A bedside ultrasound was done by an emergency physician and simultaneously read by a cardiologist.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 17, 2018
PR depression, which suggests pericarditis 4. We also showed that, of 47 cases of pericarditis with ST elevation, none had ST depression in aVL. ) I’ll add the following 2 comments: i ) This patient presumably has effusive-constrictive pericarditis. Absence of any ST depression in aVL. ( Clin Cardiol 22:334-344, 1999 ).
All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders
APRIL 25, 2024
There are other tests also for tuberculous pericarditis, but they not as sure as growing the bacterium in culture. Pericardial effusion is usually confirmed by an echocardiogram (ultrasound study of the heart). In addition to cancer and tuberculosis, any other cause of pericarditis can also cause pericardial effusion.
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