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Chest pain and a racing heart in a 64-year-old man

CardiologyMedium

Wei Zhang

64 years · Male

Vitals

Heart rate
78 bpm
Blood pressure
132/78 mmHg
Resp. rate
16 /min
SpO₂
98%
Temperature
98.1 °F

How hard it is

A real-world presentation with one or two atypical features. You'll need targeted questions and the right test to narrow the differential.

The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.

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Source

Adapted from a case report published in BMC Research Notes, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.