60 year old with vomiting, diarrhea, and syncope: is this Wellens? Is this type 2 MI?
Written by Jesse McLaren, with edits/comments by Smith and Grauer A 60 year-old patient with diabetes and ESRD presented with 24…
Acute aphasia. What is the likely etiology?
A 60-something man without significant past history presented after sudden onset of aphasia 45 minutes prior. There was also a…
With all those Q-waves, this can’t be acute OMI, right?
Author’s note: This post is guest-written by Brooks Walsh, an emergency physician with an interest in emergency electrocardiology and…
Left ventricular Aneurysm Morphology Distorted by Right Bundle Branch Block, Mimicking Acute STEMI with RBBB
This is a complex case that I have reprinted from my article in the EMRA publication, EM Resident, with their permission. I’m…
29 year old, healthy, with pleuritic chest pain
A 29 year old male presented with 6 hours of stuttering chest pain, constant for the last hour, worse with breathing. He had no medical…
Classic LV aneurysm (persistent ST elevation after previous MI)
70 yo with h/o MI, recent CABG, has acute onset of chest pain. What are the worrisome EKG findings, and what is the differential diagnosis?…