ASEAN Heart Journal

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Lecture

ASEAN Heart Journal

October 2016, 24:6

First online: 16 December 2016

Lecture

15th Sukaman Memorial Lecture

ST Segment Elevation: New Electrocardiographic Insights in 2014

Boon-Lock Chia1, 2
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Abstract

Of all the non-arrhythmic electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities, ST segment elevation (ST elevation) is the most important with regard to diagnosis, prognosis and management.

Keywords
Brugada Syndrome - Acute Pericarditis - Culprit Artery - Isoelectric Line - Contiguous Lead


Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore

© The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access by ASEAN Federation of Cardiology.

Corresponding author: Emeritus Professor Boon-Lock Chia, Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore, NUHS Tower Block Level 9, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119228

Citation for Professor Boon-Lock Chia, Republic of Singapore

It is with great pleasure for me to deliver the citation of our 15th Sukaman Memorial lecturer, Professor Boon-Lock Chia from Singapore. Prof Chia graduated in Medicine in 1963 from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore [NUS]). His initial training in Cardiology was in Sydney, Australia and later at the Division of Cardiology, Stanford University Medical Centre in America. He joined the NUS as a Senior Lecturer in Medicine in 1972 and was promoted to full Professor in 1981 till 1999.

He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the NUS and an Emeritus Consultant at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore. His former appointments, achievements and awards include the following: (1) Head, Division of Cardiology and Chief, Cardiac Department at the National University Hospital, Singapore (2) President of the Singapore Cardiac Society (3) President of the Singapore Hypertension Society (4) Secretary-Treasurer, Asean Federation of Cardiology (5) Chairman of the Workgroup for Singapore Ministry of Health’s Clinical Practice Guidelines in Lipids (2001, 2006) (6) Life Time Achievement Award from: (i) The Singapore Cardiac Society and (ii) The Lee Foundation – National Healthcare Group (7) Honorary Member of the Singapore Medical Association (8) Dato Paduka Mahkota Brunei (9) Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and 3 other colleges (10) International Editor of “Journal of Electrocardiology” (11) Delivered the 9th Antonio Samia lecture at the 14th Asia Pacific Congress of Cardiology in 2004.

Prof Chia was one of the pioneers of echocardiography and 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring in Singapore. He has published more than 160 papers in international and regional journals and authored 2 books – (i) “Clinical Electrocardiography” and (ii) “An Atlas of Two dimensional and Doppler Echocardiography”.

Dato’ Dr Azhari Rosman

President National Heart Association of Malaysia

Supplementary Material

Nil

 

References

1. Chia BL, Clinical Electrocardiography 4th Edition 2015, World Scientific Publishing.

2. Thygesen K, Alpert JS, Jaffe AS, et al. Joint ESC/ACC/AHA/ WHF Task Force for the Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction (2012). Third universal definition of myocardial infarction. Circulation 126: 2020-35.

3. Chia BL, Yip JW, Tan HC, Lim YT (2000). Usefullness of ST Elevation II/III Ratio and ST Deviation in Lead 1 for identifying the Culprit artery in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 86: 341-43. CrossRef   PubMed

4. Surawicz B, Parikh SR (2002). Prevalence of male and female patterns of early ventricular repolarization in the normal ECG of males and females from childhood to old age. J Am Coll Cardiol 40: 1870-6. CrossRef   PubMed

5. Wang K (2013). Atlas of Electrocardiography, page 223. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd.

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About this Article

Title
15th Sukaman Memorial Lecture


Open Access
Available under Open Access


Journal

>> ASEAN Heart Journal 
>> 24:1


Online Date

21 November 2019


DOI

10.7603/s40602-016-0006-3


Online ISSN

2315-4551


Publisher

ASEAN Federation of Cardiology


Additional Links

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Topics

Cardiology


Keywords

Brugada Syndrome
Acute Pericarditis
Culprit Artery
Isoelectric Line
Contiguous Lead


Author Affiliations

1.Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, NUHS Tower Block Level 9, 1E Kent Ridge Road,, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
2. Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore, Singapore