Key result
A 50-year-old woman with a 3-year history of lightheadedness and an irregularly irregular pulse presented for ECG diagnosis.
Why the study?
What is the most likely diagnosis for a 50-year-old woman presenting with lightheadedness, anxiety, diaphoresis, and an irregularly irregular pulse based on her 12-lead ECG?
Case Report (n=1)
What is the most likely diagnosis for a 50-year-old woman presenting with lightheadedness, anxiety, diaphoresis, and an irregularly irregular pulse based on her 12-lead ECG?
A clinical vignette presenting an ECG for a 50-year-old woman with lightheadedness and an irregularly irregular pulse to test diagnostic skills.
Case aids ECG training for irregular pulses with lightheadedness; leaves open validation in larger cohorts.
Clinical introduction A 50-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 3-year history of worsening episodes of lightheadedness, anxiety and diaphoresis. She was otherwise healthy. Her cardiovascular physical examination was normal apart from an irregularly irregular pulse of 105 beats per minute. When she arrived in the emergency department, a 12-lead ECG was obtained (figure 1). Figure 1 Patient’s ECG. Question What is the most likely diagnosis? Atrial fibrillation (AF) Atrial premature beats Atrioventricular (AV) reciprocating tachycardia Dual AV nodal non-reentrant tachycardia (DAVNNT) AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia
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Gouda et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Lightheadedness and irregular pulse (n=1). 12-lead ECG was evaluated on Diagnosis. A 50-year-old woman with a 3-year history of lightheadedness and an irregularly irregular pulse presented for ECG diagnosis.
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