Hypercalcaemia Mimicking STEMI on Electrocardiography

Acute coronary syndrome is a common cause of presentation to hospital. ST segment elevation on an electrocardiogram (ECG) is likely to be cardiac in origin, but in low-risk patients other causes must be ruled out. We describe a case of a man with hypercalcaemia, no evidence of cardiac disease, and E...

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Autores principales: Donovan, Joseph, Jackson, Mark
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21209731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/563572
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description Acute coronary syndrome is a common cause of presentation to hospital. ST segment elevation on an electrocardiogram (ECG) is likely to be cardiac in origin, but in low-risk patients other causes must be ruled out. We describe a case of a man with hypercalcaemia, no evidence of cardiac disease, and ECG changes mimicking acute myocardial infarction. These ECG changes resolved after treatment of the hypercalcaemia.
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spelling pubmed-30148352011-01-05 Hypercalcaemia Mimicking STEMI on Electrocardiography Donovan, Joseph Jackson, Mark Case Rep Med Case Report Acute coronary syndrome is a common cause of presentation to hospital. ST segment elevation on an electrocardiogram (ECG) is likely to be cardiac in origin, but in low-risk patients other causes must be ruled out. We describe a case of a man with hypercalcaemia, no evidence of cardiac disease, and ECG changes mimicking acute myocardial infarction. These ECG changes resolved after treatment of the hypercalcaemia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3014835/ /pubmed/21209731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/563572 Text en Copyright © 2010 J. Donovan and M. Jackson. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Hypercalcaemia Mimicking STEMI on Electrocardiography
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