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A 67-year-old man, without any previous cardiac history, presents to the emergency department with complaints of substernal chest discomfort associated with diaphoresis and nausea. His symptoms ...
Priscilla Hsue: The common things would be substernal chest pain, possibly radiating through the arm into the neck, associated feelings of sweatiness, … nausea (and) shortness of breath.
In diagnosing patients who present with acute-onset chest pain, ... 12 hours. 3,5,6,9 The initial work-up for substernal chest pain and/or dyspnea that may be caused by takotsubo cardiomyopathy ...
A 43-year-old man presents to his internist with reports of a sharp mid-sternal chest pain that occurs with exertion. An exercise test on a treadmill is ordered and performed. He exercises for 10 ...
A 65-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath, sore throat, fever, chills, productive cough, and substernal chest pain. She tested positive for ...
“Typically, when you think of a heart attack you think of that crushing substernal chest pain, sweating, things like that. And that can happen in women also, but sometimes the symptoms of a ...
A 78-year-old female with a remote history of coronary artery disease, prior transient ischemic attack and diabetes presents with substernal chest pains.