Background Pericardium is considered electrically inert, but diffuse ST-elevation is an electrocardiographic marker of acute pericarditis. We hypothesised that ST-elevation in acute pericarditis may ...

If primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is performed promptly, the procedure is superior to fibrinolysis in restoring flow to the infarct-related artery in patients with ST-segment ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; Sharen Lee, Gary Tse, Xin Wang, Adrian Baranchuk and Tong Liu from Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology, Hong Kong, China, ...

Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...

If we look only at V1-2, this is a typical ECG pattern of Brugada syndrome. However, the base of the T waves in V4-6 quickly come together, making the T wave narrow, tented, and pointed. This T-wave ...

Her initial electrocardiogram shows an initial ST depression followed by positive deflections leads I and aVL. Non-physiological ST segment and T-wave changes were also observed in the precordial ...

Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is estimated to occur in more than 500,000 people in the US every year. With the introduction of reperfusion therapy by fibrinolysis or primary ...

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is effective in opening the infarct-related artery in patients with myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation. However, the embolization of ...

ST-segment elevation on the EKG in COVID-19 patients was especially complex and had poor prognosis in a small case series from New York City hospitals. Confirmed COVID-19 was complicated by ST-segment ...