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A 52-year-old man with thrombophlebitis and prior MI presents with chest pain, dyspnea, and bloody stools.
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A case report of a 52-year-old man presenting with chest pain, dyspnea, and bloody stools with a history of myocardial infarction and thrombophlebitis on warfarin.
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Alerts clinicians to overlapping symptoms in anticoagulated post-MI patients; leaves open etiology in this case report.
CASE 19-1980Presentation of Case First admission. A 52-year-old mentally retarded man was admitted to the hospital because of chest pain.Six years before admission a diagnosis of thrombophlebitis was made, and warfarin was begun. Two years before entry an electrocardiogram demonstrated a pattern of old anteroseptal myocardial infarction. Seven months before entry he came to the hospital because of anterior chest pain. Progressive exertional dyspnea developed and improved after the administration of digoxin. For several days before entry the abdominal girth increased, and he passed bloody stools. On the day of admission anterior chest pain recurred.He had . . .
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Cabot et al. (1980) conducted a case report in Chest pain (n=1). A 52-year-old man with a history of thrombophlebitis and old myocardial infarction presented with recurrent anterior chest pain, progressive exertional dyspnea, and bloody stools.
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