Electrocardiographic findings for predicting the left anterior descending artery chronic total occlusion in patients with inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Xiaobin Zheng, Zhaofu Zhang, Bingqi Yao, Haiyan Wu · 2024
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Description
When a heart attack shows on the tracing as an inferior STEMI, doctors must find which artery is blocked, and a heart tracing can help. Xiaobin Zheng and three co-authors ask a further question in this 2024 study. Can the tracing also reveal a long-blocked front artery, a finding that changes the risk picture? They review one hundred and eighty-nine such patients at their chest pain center.
All patients had vessel imaging within a day and were sorted into four groups by the state of that front artery and its neighbors. The twenty patients with a fully blocked front artery more often had high blood pressure. They also carried the highest levels of a heart strain marker, the weakest pump function, and the most cases of shock. The paper weighs which tracing and clinical signs mark out that high-risk group.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaobin Zheng, Zhaofu Zhang, Bingqi Yao, Haiyan Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |