A Broken Heart
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 334 (5) , 319-321
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199602013340509
Abstract
A 70-year-old man was brought to the emergency department because of syncope. He had a long history of type II diabetes treated with oral hypoglycemic agents but no history of heart disease, chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or smoking and no history of heart disease in the family. During the night before his admission, he awoke with mild chest pain that lasted 30 minutes and subsided spontaneously. He then went back to sleep. Shortly after waking in the morning, the patient collapsed suddenly and was brought to the hospital.His chest pain . . .Keywords
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