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Kardia Mobile ecg showing some odd blips, please help interpret

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I've been having frequent palpitations and some random gasps for air when they happen. I purchased a home ecg monitor by Kardia, and suceeded in capturing some of the moments they happen. Even better, no motion/noise to mess with the reading! However I can't find any matching pictures of the beats except for something scary called ST elevation. Please help me decipher this ecg blip, and I may share others down the line to help solve my mystery! Thank you :)

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Prada47

Hi FruitLion nice to meet you.

Sorry I can't help with the ECG and I don't have the knowledge to say if it's a good trace or not.

I would suggest that if you are concerned enough to purchase a monitor you maybe need to obtain professional advice to set your mind at rest.

Sorry can't help just wish you well.

Regards

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Hello and welcome to the forum! This is really something you need to take up with a medical professional. These single lead devices are good for detecting arrhythmias but beyond that have a high chance of producing a false positive or negative. You really need to have a full 12-lead ECG for a proper interpretation. If you get significant symptoms before you see your GP go to A&E, and take this with you.

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Calm2

I recently had a 72 hr ECG that showed an intermittent extra heart beat. That was followed by a 12 lead ECG which showed up nothing abnormal. I would suggest asking your GP if a 12 lead ECG would be possible for you as my understanding is that’s the one that will pick up any abnormality? Good luck

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JonathanH

I diagnosed on myself an ST-elevation on an ecg obtained on a hand-held device, showed it to my cardiologist and was "awarded" with an angiogram. As soon as I saw your ecg I spotted that the elevated waveform was broadly in the right place for an ST-elevation, though of a different shape to mine.

On the basis of my experience, I would definitely recommend showing your ecg to a cardiologist. What is happening to you is unpleasant (especially the shortness of breath) and a sign of illness, and needs investigating.

Thanks to my own efforts, I finally diagnosed myself with microvascular angina, and had that self-diagnosis professionally confirmed. I haven't a clue if that is your disorder, but I don't think that anything in your brief report is necessarily inconsistent with MVA or vasospasm.

I applaud you for buying an ecg device. You may need to continue doing a lot for yourself, especially fighting your corner with the medical profession. Assuming that you have ecg's done in hospital or by paramedics, do keep them all for possible later expert analysis.

Let us know how you get on.

Kind regards

Jonathan

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ScoobyDoo71

Fully agree with Thatwasunexpected These devices clearly say they cannot diagnose heart attacks they are only taking view from one lead perspective hence why it can detect irregular rate and rhythm but no more. If you have symptoms of chest aches or new breathlessness you need it checking out. Only a full ECG can show ST elevation. There is so much artefact on these it’s impossible to see anything other than rate and basic rhythm they are great for palpitations as a starting point.

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ndav63

It looks like you possibly moved by breathing in deeply for example. If it was ST elevation it would show on the other ST waves on the ecg.

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Kuhner

I bought a Kardia 6 lead after the Arrhythmia Alliance conference in Birmingham in October,having had a recent diagnosis of SVT with multiple atrial ectopics. The 12 lead ECG ‘s I had were normal but it showed up on a 7 day monitor. With the Kardia it’s possible for a fee of £5 to upload the trace to be reported on by a cardiac physiologist and for that they only need the single lead. The report only takes a few hours and is quite comprehensive. Interestingly when I stopped taking bisoprolol, for the first two or three days the Kardia asked if it was me even though the readings were classified as normal.

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