Journal Article

A patient I saw in the ED presented with an acute myocardial infarction. He presented with shortness of breath and chest pressure that woke him up in the middle of the night, however once in the ED he wasn’t experiencing any chest pain. His EKG showed ST elevations and was having an acute STEMI although he didn’t seem like he was having an MI due to his largely asymptomatic presentation. Therefore, I presented a journal article on typical and atypical symptoms of acute coronary syndrome. The article explained how many times women are underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed because they tend to present atypically, however they don’t present as atypically as providers suspect and the difference is marginal. Furthermore, when women do present typically, they’re actually more likely to be having an MI than when men present typically.

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