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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

  1. Pulmonary artery thrombosis
  2. Stenocardia
  3. An attack of coronary artery disease
  4. Hypertensic crisis
  5. Myocardial infarction
Correct answer

An attack of coronary artery disease

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