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ArticleCroatian medical journal2025

The painless ST-elevation myocardial infarction equivalent: a case report.

Martin Medvid, Salome Glauser, Fabian Zürcher

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Article in Croatian medical journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Martin MedvidMartin Medvid, Emergency Center, SRO Langenthal, St. Urbanstraße 67, Langenthal, Switzerland, m.medvid@sro.ch.
Salome Glauser
Fabian Zürcher

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Abstract

This report presents the case of a 61-year-old patient who experienced sporadically occurring episodes of chest pain lasting approximately 15 minutes. The initial electrocardiogram (ECG) showed unspecific repolarization disturbances but no ST-elevation indicative of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, upon closer examination, biphasic T waves were detected, suggestive of specific repolarization abnormalities. The conventional Wellens criteria were met, possibly indicating an etiopathogenetic correlation with the patient's complaints. Subsequent coronary angiography revealed a functional occlusion of the middle segment of the left anterior descending artery, which was treated by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty/drug eluting stent. It also revealed a severely stenosed distal circumflex artery, indicating a two-vessel coronary disease. If we had used only conventional STEMI criteria, this patient would have certainly been missed. Therefore, when evaluating patients presenting with chest pain, it is imperative to consider non-occlusion infarction ECG abnormalities, known as STEMI equivalents. This case, moreover, highlights the importance of the non-officially proposed occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI)/non-OMI paradigm instead of the old STEMI/non-STEMI dichotomy.

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Chest PainST Elevation Myocardial InfarctionAngioplasty, Balloon, CoronaryCoronary AngiographyDrug-Eluting StentsElectrocardiographyHumansMaleMiddle Aged

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