Spastic Paraplegia - Reflexes Exam - Muscle Stretch Sub-exam - Patient 5
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- Abstract:
This video features a 54-year-old white male with a history of spastic paraplegia (diagnosed in 1994) and no previous history of heart disease or cardiac workup. He presented to the Emergency Room complaining of three days on-and-off retrosternal chest pain. Clinical history: Patient presented to the ER complaining of three days on-and-off retrosternal chest pain, rated 3/10, lasting approximately 30 minutes, occurring multiple times daily at rest or during activity. The first episode occurred three days before admission while the patient was working on his computer. The pain starts in his left neck and goes down to the left arm to the elbow and retrosternally. No shortness of breath, cough, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever or diaphoresis with this pain.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- H.E.A.L.