DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 79-year-old man in relatively good health. I don’t take any medications. I recently visited a cardiologist regarding some heart palpitations that I have been experiencing. After ...

If the finding on an ECG is “septal infarct, age undetermined,” it means that the patient possibly had a heart attack at an undetermined time in the past. Septal infarct is a patch of dead, dying, or ...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) continues to be a leading cause of death worldwide, necessitating rapid and accurate diagnosis to mitigate severe cardiac damage. The electrocardiogram (ECG) remains ...

In recent years, there has been an explosion in technology in terms of our ability to image both the heart and the brain with higher resolution to detect structure, ischemia, early infarct, ...

There are Q waves in the inferior leads and in leads V1-V4 (anteroseptal leads). This indicates an infarction, possibly old. What is concerning about this ECG tracing are the ST segments. There is an ...

A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which is a wall of tissue dividing the two sides of the heart. It happens when there is a blockage or reduction in its blood ...