Do patients with LBBB and STEMI, when reperfused, develop T-wave inversion (reperfusion T-waves)?
The case below was contributed by Pendell Meyers, an EM G1 at Mt. Sinai (the case did not come from Mt. Sinai though!) Pendell is the lead…
Wide Complex Tachycardia and Cyanosis
This case was sent by a former HCMC resident: A 20-something non-English speaking woman with a history of some sort of congenital heart defect…
LVH with secondary ST depression??
This was sent by Michael Macias (Twitter: @EMedCurious), a 4th year EM resident at Northwestern in Chicago. Case: An elderly man with end…
Why does this young male with chest pain have a tall R in V1, and lateral Q waves?
This is another post written by Brooks Walsh, with some editing by Smith. Ken Grauer, who is truly an ECG guru, also had a hand in the…
Only the ECG Diagnoses Acute Coronary Occlusion. Do not be Fooled by a Negative High Sensitivity Troponin.
This case was sent by Peter Hammarlund, 2nd year Internal Medicine/Cardiology resident (and self-proclaimed ECG nerd) at Helsingborg…
Persistent Chest Pain, an Elevated Troponin, and a Normal ECG. At midnight.
A middle aged male presented at midnight after 14 hours of constant, severe substernal chest pain, radiating to his throat and to bilateral…
Acute Chest Pain: Computer reads “Nonspecific ST-T abnormalities”
A male in his 60’s had a history of previously stented infero-posterior-lateral STEMI due to an occluded dominant circumflex, which had…
Syncope Several Times, Complete Heart Block, And a Surprise ECG in the ED!
This was sent by one of our graduates who will remain anonymous. A 55 year old male with a history of DM and HTN had 2 syncopal episodes, then…
Right Precordial T-wave Inversion
This was posted on Facebook EKG club by Massimo Bolognesi, from Italy. He is a highly respected Sports Medicine Cardiologist.…
ST Elevation in aVL. Reciprocal ST depression in III. Is it MI?
I was reading this ECG in the queue, with no clinical info. What do you think? My interpretation was LVH, no evidence of MI. There…