Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 31, 2020

Their OMI Manifesto details how use of standard STEMI criteria results in an unacceptable level of inaccuracy, in which an estimated 25-30% of acute coronary occlusions are missed! The article by Aslanger, Smith et al that is featured above in today’s post has just been published.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By Smith, peer-reviewed by Interventional Cardiologist Emre Aslanger Submitted by anonymous A 53 y.o. Here is his ED ECG at triage: Obvious high lateral OMI that does not quite meet STEMI criteria. We documented that the majority of stenotic lesions had compensatory enlargement and thus exhibited remodeling.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Written by Emre Aslanger. Emre is a new Editor of the Blog. PMID: 34523597. == MY Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 11/13/2022 ): == Highly interesting case by Emre Aslanger. He is an interventionalist in Turkey. Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2021 Sep;49(6):488-500. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2021.21026. 2021.21026.

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