A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage

Timely diagnosis of acute coronary occlusion is essential to avoid chronic cardiac impairment and death. We describe an uncommon case of acute myocardial infarction masked by low QRS voltage secondary to morbid obesity. This case highlights the importance of considering the degree of ST-segment elev...

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Autores principales: Golightly, Jeffrey, Shipman, Stacia, Owens, Ross, Painter, Kelly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31997664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620903133
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author Golightly, Jeffrey
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Owens, Ross
Painter, Kelly
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description Timely diagnosis of acute coronary occlusion is essential to avoid chronic cardiac impairment and death. We describe an uncommon case of acute myocardial infarction masked by low QRS voltage secondary to morbid obesity. This case highlights the importance of considering the degree of ST-segment elevation proportionally to the QRS amplitude if there is clinical suspicion of acute coronary occlusion.
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spelling pubmed-69931492020-02-14 A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage Golightly, Jeffrey Shipman, Stacia Owens, Ross Painter, Kelly J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Timely diagnosis of acute coronary occlusion is essential to avoid chronic cardiac impairment and death. We describe an uncommon case of acute myocardial infarction masked by low QRS voltage secondary to morbid obesity. This case highlights the importance of considering the degree of ST-segment elevation proportionally to the QRS amplitude if there is clinical suspicion of acute coronary occlusion. SAGE Publications 2020-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6993149/ /pubmed/31997664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620903133 Text en © 2020 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage
title A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage
title_full A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage
title_fullStr A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage
title_short A Case of Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Morbidly Obese Patient Masked on Electrocardiogram by Low QRS Voltage
title_sort case of acute coronary occlusion in a morbidly obese patient masked on electrocardiogram by low qrs voltage
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31997664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620903133
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