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SGEM#370: Listen to your Heart (Score)…MACE Incidence in Non-Low Risk Patients with known Coronary Artery Disease

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Date: June 30th, 2022 Reference: McGinnis et al. Case: You are working a shift in your local community emergency department […] The post SGEM#370: Listen to your Heart (Score)…MACE Incidence in Non-Low Risk Patients with known Coronary Artery Disease first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Reference: McGinnis et al.

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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

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No family history of sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathy, premature CAD, or other cardiac issues. There is a literature on this subject ( GGF van der Schoot et al: Neth Heart J 28(6):301-308, 2020 — and — Egred et al — Postgrad Med 81(962): 741-745, 2005 — to name just 2 reports ). No similar symptoms in the past.