Background Out-of-hospital patients presenting with atypical chest pain and complete left bundle branch block(LBBB)have to be stratified for the presence of coronary artery disease and the risk of developing heart fai...
OBJECTIVES Syncope at age 65+is associated with increased mortality,irrespective of cause.Syncope rules were designed to aid in risk-stratification but were only validated in the general adult population.Our objective...
Takotsubo syndrome(TTS)is a cardiovas-cular condition characterized by a transi-ent cardiac dysfunction,generally invol-ving the apical segments of left ventriculum,in ab-sence of significant coronary artery disease.[...
BACKGROUD Acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction(HFpEF)is a common but poorly studied cause of hospital admissions among nonagenarians.This study aimed to evaluate predictors of thirty-day readmission,in...
A 66yearold gentleman presented for a cardiovascular evaluation secondary to chest discomfort,right knee pain,and intractable hiccups.The patient also had type 2 diabetes mellitus,hypercholesterolemia,aortic atheroscl...
The coxsackievirus is well known for its vastly differing clinical presentations.Patients with coxsackievirus usually present with a viral prodrome which can then progress to the cardiac symptoms of chest pain and/or ...
A 39-year-old male with no known comorbidities presented with sudden onset right-sided weakness.On examination,blood pressure was 128/79 mmHg,National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score was 4 and there were no si...
An 87-year-old male with old myocardial infarction was referred to the hospital due to left femur neck fracture and intermittent dizziness. Significant 2:1 atrioventricular block was demonstrated on initial electrocar...
A sixty-one-year-old male,with a medical history of coronary heart disease and myocardial bridge (not confirmed by cardiac catheterization) in the past three years and a 1-h history of sudden onset nausea,retching,dia...
ST elevation on ECG in the setting of mesenteric ischemia has been reported.[1] From three prior reports, only one had a true ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) coexisting with mesenteric ischemia. In patien...