Chest “Tightness” in an Elderly Woman
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A 76-year-old woman presents with chest pain—which she describes as “muscle tightness”that began when she awoke in the morning. The pain is constant, exacerbated by deep inspiration, and accompanied by a subjective sense of slight dyspnea; she rates its severity as 3 on a scale of 1 to 10. She denies pain radiation, nausea, diaphoresis, palpitations, and light-headedness. Her only cardiac risk factors are hypertension and a distant history of smoking.
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