Acute chest pain and an abnormal ECG. Do precordial leads show benign T-wave inversion or ischemia?
Written by Willy Frick A 51 year old man with hypertension presented with three hours of acute onset, severe midsternal chest pain…
T-wave inversions and dynamic ST elevation
Written by Pendell Meyers, with edits by Steve Smith I received a text message with no clinical information other than the following ECG, with…
Persistent Juvenile T-wave Pattern
This article is written by Brooks Walsh, MD, an emergency physician, as well as Steve Smith, and with help from Ken Grauer, who is quite…
A young man with a ‘pathologic’ ECG
Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today’s case is a young adult male who has had annual cardiological follow-ups due to a…
A 60-something male presents with crushing chest pain
I was reading ECGs on the system and saw this one: What do you think? I recognized this immediately as a variant due to some combination…
A 50-something Australian with sudden severe epigastric and chest pain presented looking extremely ill.
A 50-something with sudden severe epigastric and chest pain presented looking extremely ill. Here is her ECG: What do you think? There is ST…
What does this ECG with significant ST Elevation represent?
These 2 serial ECGs were texted to me recently. They were recorded 12 minutes apart: “Hey Steve, 30-something with one week of…
Anterior STEMI?
The patient presents to the emergency Department with complaints of substernal left-sided chest pain present for 4 days but worse in the last…