DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 79-year-old man in relatively good health. I don’t take any medications. I recently visited a cardiologist regarding some heart palpitations that I have been experiencing. After ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Here is a case I will never forget. A 45-year-old man ...

Key points A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of central chest pain and dyspnea. Her medical history included having had a myocardial infarction (MI) with n ...

There are Q waves in the inferior leads and in leads V1-V4 (anteroseptal leads). This indicates an infarction, possibly old. What is concerning about this ECG tracing are the ST segments. There is an ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: When I went to my new doctor, whom I like very much, I found that they do a lot of things in their office that I would normally be sent elsewhere for. The nurse drew four vials of ...

A 52-year-old man hospitalized with chest pain is found to have a slow heart rate and evidence of heart block. What does an ...

This ECG (Figure 1), recorded in the emergency room, shows a wide complex tachycardia at 205 bpm. Wide complex tachycardias are more likely to be ventricular tachycardia (VT) than supraventricular ...

Note: ECG = electrocardiography, LAD = left anterior descending artery, STEMI = ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. These cases raise several questions: Are these true syndromes or simply ECG ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 79-year-old man in relatively good health. I don’t take any medications. I recently visited a cardiologist regarding some heart palpitations that I have been experiencing. After ...

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