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A 70-year-old diabetic man presents with sudden collapse and syncope following mild chest pain.
Case Report (n=1)
Case report of a 70-year-old man presenting with syncope and chest pain.
May prompt consideration of cardiac causes in diabetic syncope; case reports leave generalizability and practice change open.
A 70-year-old man was brought to the emergency department because of syncope. He had a long history of type II diabetes treated with oral hypoglycemic agents but no history of heart disease, chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or smoking and no history of heart disease in the family. During the night before his admission, he awoke with mild chest pain that lasted 30 minutes and subsided spontaneously. He then went back to sleep. Shortly after waking in the morning, the patient collapsed suddenly and was brought to the hospital.His chest pain . . .
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Zahger et al. (1996) conducted a case report in Syncope and chest pain (n=1). A 70-year-old man with type II diabetes presented with sudden collapse and syncope following an episode of mild chest pain.
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