Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2011
Rising from a chair after a dental procedure, a 60-year-old patient felt retrosternal pain radiating to the left arm, nausea, weakness. Objectively: the patient is pale, his face is sweaty. AP is 90/60 mm Hg, pulse is arrhythmic, of poor volume, 100/min. Heart sounds are muffled, vesicular breathing is present. What is your provisional diagnosis?
Answer options
- Pulmonary artery thrombosis
- Stenocardia
- An attack of coronary artery disease
- Hypertensic crisis
- Myocardial infarction
Correct answer
An attack of coronary artery disease
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