Case Report

Hiccups as a Sign of Chronic Myocardial Ischemia

Chronic myocardial ischemia often presents with a fairly typical history, but patients can present with atypical chest pain or pain referred to a less-typical location like the jaw, stomach, or back. Sometimes patients describe symptoms usually not attributed to heart disease, like indigestion or feeling cold and clammy, in the…

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Case Report

Acute Rheumatic Fever Presenting as Unstable Angina

The most common presentation of acute rheumatic fever in adults is a febrile illness with an additive or migratory polyarthritis that is present on average in 92%; of patients (range, 43–100%), or tenosynovitis usually of the wrists and ankles (67%. 1,2 Carditis, present in 15 to 35% of patients, is…

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