Rare case of inferior myocardial infarction from left main coronary artery spontaneous coronary artery dissection by Giorgio A. Medranda, Kevin Marzo

“…This was a young female with chest pain and inferior ST elevations. Cardiac catheterization revealed type 1 angiographic SCAD of the LMCA. …”
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Lung involvement in chronic occult aspiration by Gayathri Nair Karedath, K Praveen Kumar, V Nandini, M Krishnaprasad, E Shabana

“…Here, we present the case of an elderly male patient having diffuse esophageal spasm manifesting as recurrent chest pain and interstitial lung disease.…”
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Aneurysm of Sinus of Valsalva with Fistula to the Coronary Sinus by Madhu Shukla, Jagdish Chander Mohan

“…A 63-year-old female with hypertension, evaluated for atypical chest pain and continuous precordial murmur, was found to have an insignificant stenosis in the proximal right coronary artery with a large tortuous fistula originating from the right sinus of Valsalva to the coronary sinus draining into the right atrium with an unusual course parallel to but distinct from the right coronary artery. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Merkel Cell Carcinoma by Kamuran İbiş, Mert Saynak, Taner Akalın, Dilek Nurlu, Sernaz Uzunoğlu

“…We describe a 71-year-old male patient admitted to the hospital with posterior chest pain. Following the detection of a paravetebral mass at the level of the 2nd thoracic vertebra, the patient underwent a surgical en bloc resection of the mass. …”
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De novo coronary artery disease in graves’ disease. coincidence? by Dariush Shahsavari, Bryan Zoll

“…We report a case of a 50-year-old woman with no prior cardiac history who presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath, chest pain, lower extremity swelling, and generalized fatigue. …”
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Hiatal hernia presenting as a left atrial mass by Jagadeesh Kumar Kalavakunta, Jose Ricardo F. Po

“…We present a 62‐year‐old woman presented for evaluation of chest pain and palpitations. Transthoracic echocardiography showed left atrial mass, which was subsequently identified as hiatal hernia by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.…”
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Syncope – An Unusual Presentation of Mediastinal Seminoma by Ria Lawrence, Gayathri Anur Ramakrishnan, Mohammed Zehran

“…These mediastinal masses usually present with complaints of cough, chest pain, or symptoms of superior vena cava obstruction. …”
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Bilateral pulmonary embolism presenting as lung abscess in a tuberculosis patient: A rare presentation by Naveen Kuzhikkattil, Anil Saxena, Suman Khangarot, Shinu Abdul Wahab

“…Classical triad of chest pain, dyspnea, and hemoptysis is seen only in a minority of cases. …”
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Acute myocardial infarction in a patient with dextrocardia and successful angioplasty by Bishnu H. Subedi

“…A 48-year-old man with dextrocardia presented with atypical chest pain for 2 hours. Right-side ECG showed convex upward ST elevations in leads V4 and V5. …”
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Thymoma. Presentation of a case. by Yandy Rodríguez Acosta, Reinaldo Jiménez Prendes, Nancy Capin Sarría

“…This patient presented chest pain in its back right region, caused by a tumour in the anterior mediastinum, being carried out tymectomy by median sternotomy of Duval and Barostty. …”
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: Two case reports and a brief review by Yun-Ping Song, Wen-Nan Liu, Yong-Le Li

“…Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an unusual, special type of coronary heart disease characterized by various symptoms, such as chest pain, ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (ACS), ventricular arrhythmia, and sudden cardiac death. …”
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October 2011 Case of the month by Gotway MB

“…Clinical History A 67-year-old man with a history of squamous cell carcinoma of the throat, melanoma, and anemia presented with vague complaints of chest pain. A frontal chest radiograph (Figure 1) was performed.What is the main finding on the chest radiograph? …”
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia with pleurisy, platypnoea and orthodeoxia. by Newton, P, Wakefield, A, Goldin, R, Govan, J

“…We present a patient who collapsed with chest pain and dyspnoea on a transatlantic flight. She was found to have Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and human immunodeficiency virus infection. …”

Molecular mechanisms of Takotsubo syndrome by Couch, LS, Channon, K, Thum, T

“…TTS patients are similar to those with acute coronary syndrome, with chest pain, dyspnoea and ST segment changes on electrocardiogram, but are characterised by apical akinesia of the left ventricle, with basal hyperkinesia in the absence of culprit coronary artery stenosis. …”

Risk stratification in acute myocardial Iischaemia: Potential use of a rapid bedside Troponin T assay by Goh, Emily M.L., Chow, S.K., Lang, C.C.

“…This study is to examine the use of a Rapid Troponin T test in patients attending the Emergency Room with complaints of chest pain. The results show a strong correlation between time to positive developmentaf the Rapid Trapanin T lest to ELISA Trapanin T. …”

Clinical symptoms and signs for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children and adolescents with community‐acquired pneumonia by Wang, K, Gill, P, Perera, R, Thomson, A, Mant, D, Harnden, A

“…In two studies the presence of chest pain more than doubled the probability of M. pneumoniae. …”

Hydrothorax with Atypical Features as a Complication of Peritoneal Dialysis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Aaron Wang, Susie L Hu, Ankur D Shah

“…We report an unusual case of right-sided PD-associated hydrothorax in a 54-year-old female with a history of hypertension and anemia, who presented without chest pain or dyspnea but rather with fatigue and syncope. …”
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Hemothorax after sneezing by Andrew Neff, Cassandra Bradby

“…This rare presentation highlights the importance of a full evaluation for patients who present with viral symptoms such as sneezing or coughing along with a complaint of chest pain because massive hemothorax can be life‐threatening.…”
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by Sarita Gore, Sunil Yogiraj Swami

“…Symptoms of HCM are most commonly exertional dyspnoea, chest pain, fatigue, and pre-syncope or syncope. A small subset of patients will experience sudden cardiac death. …”
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Marijuana induced spontaneous pneumomediastinum by Chahat Puri, Kyunghoon Rhee, Vignesh K. Harish, Donald Slack

“…We present a case of a 27-year-old previously healthy male who presented with sudden onset chest pain and was found to have marijuana-induced pneumomediastinum.…”
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