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Doctors shocked by unusual cause of teen boy’s chest pain – Yahoo News Australia
The teen had complained of chest pains for three days so doctors took a CT scan of his heart.
Doctors have made an unusual discovery after a teenage boy was taken to hospital emergency with chest pains.
The 17-year-olds case was featured in The Journal of Emergency Medicine after he was hospitalised in the US state of Massachusetts.
Researchers wrote he had complained of pain for three days.
So, doctors performed an electrocardiogram to check his heart.
Doctors believed he had perimyocarditis when theres an inflammation of the sac around the heart.
They also performed a CT scan and…
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