Sex-Based Differences in the Presentation of Myocardial Infarction

The authors report a case of a middle-aged female presenting with a chief complaint of shoulder pain. Workup revealed a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. The typical symptoms of myocardial infarction and the evaluation of a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction are discussed....

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Autores principales: Mayfield, Jeremy, Gill, Muneet, Zhang, Helen J, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8418226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513479
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16906
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description The authors report a case of a middle-aged female presenting with a chief complaint of shoulder pain. Workup revealed a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. The typical symptoms of myocardial infarction and the evaluation of a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction are discussed. The authors highlight the sex-based differences in the presentation of myocardial infarction and remind us to keep a broad differential and consider atypical presentations.
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spelling pubmed-84182262021-09-10 Sex-Based Differences in the Presentation of Myocardial Infarction Mayfield, Jeremy Gill, Muneet Zhang, Helen J Ganti, Latha Cureus Cardiology The authors report a case of a middle-aged female presenting with a chief complaint of shoulder pain. Workup revealed a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. The typical symptoms of myocardial infarction and the evaluation of a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction are discussed. The authors highlight the sex-based differences in the presentation of myocardial infarction and remind us to keep a broad differential and consider atypical presentations. Cureus 2021-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8418226/ /pubmed/34513479 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16906 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mayfield et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mayfield, Jeremy
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Sex-Based Differences in the Presentation of Myocardial Infarction
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title_short Sex-Based Differences in the Presentation of Myocardial Infarction
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topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8418226/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16906
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