A Rare Case of Pulmonary Emboli Presenting With ST Elevation on ECG

Pulmonary embolism is a common medical emergency and often life threatening but can be misdiagnosed frequently leading to fatal outcomes. Changes in electrocardiogram (ECG) are common in pulmonary embolism and rarely they can present with ST elevation. We here describe a 79-year-old woman who presen...

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Autores principales: Gheith, Zaid, Alqam, Bilal, Jagana, Rajani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9574350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262957
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29249
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description Pulmonary embolism is a common medical emergency and often life threatening but can be misdiagnosed frequently leading to fatal outcomes. Changes in electrocardiogram (ECG) are common in pulmonary embolism and rarely they can present with ST elevation. We here describe a 79-year-old woman who presented after a cardiac arrest and was found have ST-segment elevation on ECG with normal coronary angiogram while CT scan revealing pulmonary embolism.
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spelling pubmed-95743502022-10-18 A Rare Case of Pulmonary Emboli Presenting With ST Elevation on ECG Gheith, Zaid Alqam, Bilal Jagana, Rajani Cureus Cardiology Pulmonary embolism is a common medical emergency and often life threatening but can be misdiagnosed frequently leading to fatal outcomes. Changes in electrocardiogram (ECG) are common in pulmonary embolism and rarely they can present with ST elevation. We here describe a 79-year-old woman who presented after a cardiac arrest and was found have ST-segment elevation on ECG with normal coronary angiogram while CT scan revealing pulmonary embolism. Cureus 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9574350/ /pubmed/36262957 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29249 Text en Copyright © 2022, Gheith et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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