Case report of a 36-year-old pregnant woman presenting with sudden severe substernal chest pain.
Alerts clinicians to cardiac etiologies in pregnant patients with acute chest pain; leaves open optimal diagnostic and management strategies.
A 36-year-old woman in her 34th week of pregnancy presented to the emergency department after the sudden onset of severe substernal chest pain that had awoken her in the early morning. She had diaphoresis and nausea but no dyspnea, dizziness, syncope, hemoptysis, cough, or fever.
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