This week, cardiologists learned for the first time they have been examining black holes for decades and did not know it. Many cardiologists and radiologists did a double take when they saw the ground-breaking first image of a black hole released by the U.S. National Science Foundation. While the unclear image of the dark circle surrounded by a bright neon orange and yellow was a new sight for many in science, it looked suspiciously similar to the standard nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) exams many physicians have been looking at daily for the past 40 years.
Category: Cardiology
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Baseline ECG changes in life-threatening arrhytmia
When assesing patients with collapse with unidentified cause, its possible underlying arrhytmia is present. The following ECG changes can suggest this
- 1. Short PR interval and delta-wave: WPW
- 2. Epsilon wave in arrhytmogenic (right) cardiomyopathy
- 3. Long QT syndrome
- 4. Brugada sign (type 1 or type 2)
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