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- Chest discomfort when thinking about stressful situation, improved by deep breathing and relaxation - Typical angina
- No benefit of clopidogrel plus aspirin vs placebo plus aspirin in reducing incidence of MI, stroke, or death from CV causes. Rate of bleeding is greater with clopidogrel and aspirin vs aspirin alone
- Carpal tunnel syndrome, HTN, back pain - cardiac amyloidosis, confirmatory test Technetium-99m pyrophosphate scan
- Amyloidosis show low-voltage QRS on ECG
- Post-procedure baseline carotid duplex ultrasound after internal carotid artery stenting should be done at four weeks after intervention
- From Africa, fever, sharp chest pain increased with inspiration and relieved by sitting forward - cause Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Preeclampsia is hypertension after 20 weeks of gestation with >300 mg protein in 24-hour urine collection or >30 mg/mmol in spot urine sample. Eclampsia is occurrence of seizures in preeclampsia
- Dyspnea NYHA lll, early opening snap, echo mild MS - exercise stress echo
- Fluorouracil complication - Myocardial infarction
- Fibrate trials have demonstrated NO reduction in cardiovascular mortality