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. 2022 Nov 14;3(6):e12848.
doi: 10.1002/emp2.12848. eCollection 2022 Dec.

A woman with chest pain

Aalap Shah  1 , Earl Dwight Cummings  1
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A woman with chest pain

Aalap Shah et al. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cardiology; chest pain; echocardiography; takotsubo cardiomyopathy; ultrasound.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
(A) Apical 4 chamber view depicting endocardial border in end‐diastole. (B) Apical 4‐chamber view depicting endocardial border in end‐systole (white outline) exemplifying apical hypokinesia and ballooning with preserved contraction at the base of the left ventricle
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