Inferior Aneurysm MorphologyLV aneurysmreciprocal ST depressiontachycardia2 Min Read Steve SmithonOctober 26, 2010 Tachycardia must make you doubt an ACS or STEMI diagnosis; put it all in clinical context This 54 year old patient with a history of kidney transplant with poor transplant function had been vomiting all day when at 10 PM he…
brugadapseudoinfarctionsaddleback STE2 Min Read Steve SmithonOctober 11, 2010 Pseudoinfarction patterns: there are many and this is one: what is it? This is courtesy of Mohammed S. Alo, who kindly let me reproduce a case from his blog (Mohammed Alo’s blog). This is a 40 year old male…
ST elevationsubtle0 Min Read Scott JoingonOctober 6, 2010 Subtle ST elevation in acute LAD occlusion; persistent ST elevation due to poor microvascular perfusion
circumflex occlusioninferior STEMI1 Min Read Steve SmithonOctober 4, 2010 Inferior STEMI: can we predict the infarct related artery? Inferior STEMI may be due to RCA or circumflex occlusion (and occasionally due to a “Type III” or “wraparound” LAD,…
aortic stenosisdemand ischemiaLVHtype II MIType II STEMI2 Min Read Steve SmithonOctober 4, 2010 Cardiac Arrest, acute ST elevation and depression superimposed on LVH, but NOT due to ACS This young male had ventricular fibrillation during a triathlon. He was resuscitated with chest compressions and defibrillation and 1 mg of…