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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Young people can suffer acute coronary occlusion, whether by typical atherosclerotic plaque rupture, or by coronary anomalies, coronary aneurysms, dissections, spasm, etc. The wall motion abnormalities of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and LAD OMI can be similar. Was this coincidence? Was this coincidence? —