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onMarch 24, 2012

Interesting new paper: in this study, even interventionalists had a hard time differentiating non-ischemic ST elevation from STEMI

Reference: Tran V, Huang HD, Diez JG, et al. Differentiating ST-elevation myocardial infarction from nonischemic ST-elevation in…

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Steve Smith

onMarch 20, 2012

Benign T-wave Inversion: view video or read text

Benign T-wave Inversion from HQMedEd on Vimeo. There are many etiologies of T-wave inversion. We are most worried about ischemic T-wave…

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Steve Smith

onMarch 18, 2012

Weak, SOB, “DKA”, Chest Pain, and Wide Complex Tachycardia: Is there STEMI?

This case was sent by a reader: A 60 year old man presented with “DKA,” Weakness, Dyspnea, and Chest pain with vomiting. He…

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Steve Smith

onMarch 11, 2012

Wide Complex Tachycardia after Ingestion and Seizure

A young man presented after a prolonged seizure. He had had a fight with his girlfriend, and she thinks he ingested something, thinks it was…

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Steve Smith

onMarch 8, 2012

Exertional Chest pain and Near Syncope in a Young Adolescent

An adolescent female presented for increasing chest pain (sometime sharp, sometime like someone standing on her chest) and palpitations with…

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Steve Smith

onMarch 3, 2012

Anterior ST elevation with large broad T-wave: what is the diagnosis?

A 41 year old male presented to a clinic with chest pain. Here is the ECG: There are very large, scary T-waves, with significant ST…

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Steve Smith

onMarch 1, 2012

WPW mimicking and obscuring acute MI

This was inspired by an undergraduate named Harvey Pendell Meyers, who knows a heck of a lot about ECGs. How is that possible, as an…

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Steve Smith

onFebruary 23, 2012

Reciprocal ST depression in II, III, aVF. What is the diagnosis?

A colleague approached me with this ECG of a middle aged male with this ECG; my colleague was worried about acute ischemia. There was no…

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Steve Smith

onFebruary 18, 2012

Pseudo Right Ventricular MI

This most recent post will help you understand this post here: I was nordic skiing out in the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan when I…

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Steve Smith

onFebruary 12, 2012

Five Primary Patterns of Ischemic ST depression, without ST elevation. Some are STEMI-equivalents.

Here are some basic concepts before we get into the ECGs: STEMI and NonSTEMI are arbitrary terms that may confuse the clinician.…

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Interesting new paper: in this study, even interventionalists had a hard time differentiating non-ischemic ST elevation from STEMI

Benign T-wave Inversion: view video or read text

Weak, SOB, “DKA”, Chest Pain, and Wide Complex Tachycardia: Is there STEMI?

Wide Complex Tachycardia after Ingestion and Seizure

Exertional Chest pain and Near Syncope in a Young Adolescent

Anterior ST elevation with large broad T-wave: what is the diagnosis?

WPW mimicking and obscuring acute MI

Reciprocal ST depression in II, III, aVF. What is the diagnosis?

Pseudo Right Ventricular MI

Five Primary Patterns of Ischemic ST depression, without ST elevation. Some are STEMI-equivalents.