Hey #medtwitter #medstudenttwitter – welcome to a late-evening edition of #12LeadThursday!
Your patient for today's case – a 55 year old man – presents as follows: cough, multifocal opacities on CXR, and tachypnea/hypoxia.
Sound familiar?
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Your patient for today's case – a 55 year old man – presents as follows: cough, multifocal opacities on CXR, and tachypnea/hypoxia.
Sound familiar?
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Let's get a closer look at that tachycardia the best way we know how: a 12-lead EKG!
What do you see?
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What do you see?
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Were you thinking STEMI? If so, you were onto something.
But the case doesn't stop here...
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But the case doesn't stop here...
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The real question we want to drive at: in the age of #COVID19, what is on your differential for this particular kind of presentation?
Simple STEMI, or something more corona-adjacent?
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Simple STEMI, or something more corona-adjacent?
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COVID can manifest in a number of ways across a number of organ systems. From a CV POV, the complications are manifold.
Why/how? TBD. Could be secondary to inflammation or secondary to supply-demand mismatch. Thanks to @gregorykatz for bringing these to our attention!
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Why/how? TBD. Could be secondary to inflammation or secondary to supply-demand mismatch. Thanks to @gregorykatz for bringing these to our attention!
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As far as what happened to the patient?
Well, a picture's worth a thousand words. And a cath image is worth ten thousand!
Thanks for joining us. Let us know what you think!
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Well, a picture's worth a thousand words. And a cath image is worth ten thousand!
Thanks for joining us. Let us know what you think!
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