History:

A 24-year-old man arrived at the emergency department complaining of pleuritic chest pain that commenced shortly after the initiation of playing tennis.

The patient's vital signs were documented as:

Blood pressure: 100/50 mmHg
Heart rate: 105 beats per minute
Respiratory rate: 18 breaths per minute
Temperature: 36.5°C

 

Those are the initial ECG that was taken 10 minutes after arrival:

 

Question:

What is the best next management strategy?

Case #560-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A 52-year-old woman with episodes of syncope underwent a Brugada challenge test, in which she was given 400 mg of oral flecainide. The results of the test are shown below.

Question:

What statement is wrong?

Case #132-Motahare Hatami

History:

A 35 y/o man is candidated for ETT for evaluation of his chest pain. His baseline ECG  before ETT was shown:

Question:

What is the Rhythm?

Case #288-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A young man with palpitation underwent EPS. An EP trace is given:

Question:

Three beats are marked, explain each of them separately :

Case #553-Ali Bozorgi

History:

Below you can find the sparkle mapping of a case of unsuccessful CCW flutter ablation.

Question:

what is the wrong statement? 

Case #199-Sarah Taaghi

History:

A 50 y/o male patient was admitted in the ICU, due to severe head trauma. He was unconscious (GCS:6) and his past medical history was not clear.
His SBP was 145 mmHg at the time of admission.Emergent craniotomy and hematoma drainage was performed and he was stable in the first day.

Cardiology consult was requested due to rise in Troponin level and ECG changes. 
In day 2, he became hypotensive, that was refractory despite initiating vasopressor agent.
You can find brain CT scan and ECG below.

 

Question:

What’s the best choice ?

Case #493-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A young lady with palpitations, surface ECG showed preexcitation. 

Question:

Where is the location of the accessory pathway?

Case #224-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A 62 years old lady with history of previous flutter ablation, she was candidate for Precision 3D mapping RF ablation, EPS and ablation is shown below:

Question:

Which statement is False about the procedure?

Case #528-Samane Mohamadi

History:

A 31 years old woman presented with paroxysmal palpitation.here there is her ECG Holter.

Question:

Which statement is NOT correct?

History:

A 64-year-old woman, known to be hypertensive and on amlodipine, was diagnosed with breast cancer 6 months ago. She completed 6 cycles of chemotherapy, with the last one administered 4 weeks ago, in preparation for radical mastectomy and axillary clearance.

She presents to the cardiology clinic complaining of shortness of breath. On examination, her blood pressure is 105/80 mmHg, pulse is 90 bpm, and regular. Bibasilar crackles were noted on auscultation of her chest.

Her ECG showed non-specific ST changes in the anterior leads.

 

 

Question:

Based on this clinical presentation and the chest X-ray (CXR) shown below, what is your diagnosis?

Case #373-Ali Bozorgi

History:

An angiogram of the right coronary artery is shown with concomitant 12 lead ECG.

Question:

What happened and why? 

Case #74-Ali Bozorgi

History:

35 years old man with recurrent palpitations, underwent EPS. Two tracings are shown below.

Question:

What is the most likely diagnosis?

Case #717-Ali Bozorgi

History:

Below, you can find the EP tracing of a middle-aged patient with palpitations.

Question:

Which statement is NOT correct?

Case #548-Ali Bozorgi

History:

Below you can find a "plot diagram" of a patient with an ICD. 

Question:

Which statement is WRONG?

Case #521-Samane Mohamadi

History:

A 60 years old male with pmh of CRT-D implantation last year,presented with this ECG. he had episodes of dizziness.
the ECG and CXR are shown below.

Question:

Which statement is correct?

Case #104-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A dual chamber pacemaker implanted for a patient. One hour after implantation, you called by a nurse for "strange rhythm". Two shots of Pacemaker analysis are given.

Question:

What is the problem?

History:

A 78 y/o woman came to ED complaining of acute onset of retrosternal chest pain, she was anxious and suffer from severe chest pain. In her past medical history she only had a history of hypertension.at admission to hospital her vital signs were as follow:

BP=160/60  HR=110 RR=22 O2sat in room air=96%

an ECG &bed side echocardiography was done immediately

Question:

According to ECG &echocardiography what is your next appropriate step?

Case #479-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A middle-aged lady came with palpitations, three ECGs are shown below:

Question:

What is your diagnosis?

Case #597-Neda Radfar

History:

A 17-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented with the chief complaint of palpitations. His surface electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrophysiological study (EPS) are illustrated below:

Question:

Choose correct answers about his arrhythmia?  

Case #371-Ali Bozorgi

History:

A middle-aged lady with a history of dual chamber pacemaker implantation 10 years ago, came to the emergency department, with a temporary pacemaker implanted, ECG after that is shown:

Question:

What is the best explanation for the ECG?

In Loving Memory of

Dr. Maryam Khoshnevis

MD, Cardiologist

Fellowship of Echocardiography

Faculty member of TUMS

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