Over the years, the Apple Watch was credited for a lot of life-saving stories, particularly when it comes to the user's heart condition. The smart wearable from Apple offered an early warning notification to the wearer whenever it detected irregular heart function that could cause irreparable heart damage. A recent article released by the European Heart Journal revealed that the Apple Watch was able to identify signs of a heart condition that a hospital ECG machine failed to detect.
EHJ Praised The Apple Watch
Based on the report of the European Heart Journal, the patient is an 80-year old German woman who attended the University Medical Center Mainz of Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany. She suffered from a condition called typical angina symptoms. She also experienced a couple of presyncope episodes.
Praesyncopy is a condition where a patient almost loses consciousness because of the decreased flow of oxygenated blood in the brain. The doctor performed the initial 12-channel ECG because the patient had a past diagnosis of arterial hypertension, pulmonary embolism, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Interestingly, as per 9to5Mac, the doctors were not able to see any evidence of myocardial ischemia.
For the uninitiated ischemia is the occurrence where blood vessels are restricted, which means it could hamper the healthy circulation and supply of blood in the body. However, the patient reportedly showed her doctors the ECG test results that she got using her Apple Watch. The result noted "tracings with marked ST-segment depression.
This result from the wearer's Apple Watch allowed doctors to see pieces of evidence that the patient had myocardial ischemia. Doctors subjected the patient to a cath lab, which revealed that "a left main stem stenosis and a left anterior descending/diagonal bifurcation lesion." The 80-year old German woman underwent coronary artery stenting and left the University Medical Center Mainz of Johannes Gutenberg University the next day.
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The recent article from the European Heart Journal suggested that Apple Watch is also capable of detecting myocardial ischemia aside from its ability to sense atrial fibrillation and atrioventricular-conduction disturbances. The recent article is another good news of how the Apple Watch was able to save the 80-year old German woman from possible irreparable heart damage. Apple fans are currently waiting for the Cupertino tech giant to announce the Apple Watch Series 6.
Whispers online earlier claimed that the next-generation Apple Watch would feature a sleep tracking, a feature that other Apple Watch rivals already have. Additionally, several reports and predictions noted that the upcoming Apple Watch model might soon sport a feature that could detect blood oxygen level apart from a possible upgrade on its ECG app.
