A man in his 50s with chest pain
Sent by anonymous, written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s with no prior known medical history presented to the Emergency Department…
What is the ECG Diagnosis?
I came across this ECG while reading ECGs for Cardiologs in order to train the Cardiologs Deep Convolutional Neural Network. I…
On its way from occlusion to reperfusion (or vice versa), the ECG can be normal or near normal
Written by Pendell Meyers I was reading ECGs in a database (without any clinical information) when I came to this one: What do you think?…
Sometimes even ST Elevation meeting criteria is not enough to be convincing
Written by Emre Aslanger. Emre is a new Editor of the Blog. He is an interventionalist in Turkey. A 50 something-year-old man with…
A man in his 50s with acute chest pain without STEMI criteria. Trop negative. Cath lab cancelled. But how about the ECG and echo?
Case submitted by Matt Tanzi MD, written by Pendell Meyers A man in his early 50s presented with substernal chest pain and that started 1 hour…
Chest pain, peak troponin 100,000 ng/L and this ECG on discharge: what’s the diagnosis?
Written by Jesse McLaren, with edits by Smith Usually cases are presented in chronological order the way they appear in real life. But…
Two patients with chest pain and LVH: Neither STEMI criteria, nor Armstrong criteria, can identify occlusion or reperfusion
Written by Jesse McLaren Two patients presented with chest pain and LVH on ECG. Patient 1: 65 year old with an hour of left sided chest…
Back to the basics. An elderly man with chest pain, no STEMI criteria, and troponin within normal limits. What does his ECG mean?
Written by Pendell Meyers An elderly man with history of CAD presented to the ED with acute chest tightness and diaphoresis beginning 30…
A 30-something with Chest pain, elevated troponin, with Subtle ST Elevation and hyperacute T-waves.
A 30-something male presented in the middle of the night with several hours of sharp, non-radiating, left sided chest pain. It was there…