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Case Report: The Heart Breaking Tale Of Takotsubo In The Ed, Richard Baluyot, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Sergey Medlenov, Joseph Pagano, Bhumi Shah
Case Report: The Heart Breaking Tale Of Takotsubo In The Ed, Richard Baluyot, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Sergey Medlenov, Joseph Pagano, Bhumi Shah
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Chest pain is one of the most common chief complaints that emergency room physicians deal with on a daily basis. Here we present a rare cause of chest pain on a patient diagnosed with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. This is a condition that has been on the rise since its initial discovery and therefore clinicians should consider this on their differential when assessing patients with chest pain, especially postmenopausal women.