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aka Cardiovascular Curveball 013 A junior colleague asks if he can discuss a case with you. His patient is a 23 year-old man who presents with 2 hours of rapid regular palpitations associated with ‘not feeling quite right’. These symptoms came on while he was running on a treadmill at his local gym. He has [...]
A 67-year old male is brought to hospital by ambulance with severe chest pain, sweating, vomiting and syncope. There is something deeply worrying on his ECG… Can you make the diagnosis that will save his life?
A reader (Christopher Watford) recently contacted the LITFL team with a query regarding a Visual Aid Question (VAQ) from the first sitting of the 2007 examination. So the team set about investigating the validity of the query using the power of social media…
Here’s another volume from LITFL’s ever growing ECG Library — all you need to know about the ECG diagnosis of right ventricular infarction.
“VT or not VT? That is the question…” you muse. Then your patient Bill says “A shock, a shock, my kingdom for a shock”…
A 54 year old man presents to your rural emergency department with chest pain. An initial ECG reveals an inferior STEMI. Fifteen minutes after receiving intravenous thrombolysis the following ECG is taken.
The LITFL team call upon the wider academic cardiological community to fund research into the under-diagnosed conditions of ‘calligraphitis’ or literary heart syndrome and the positive electropenogram
A 50 year old man presents following an episode of palpitations and syncope.
