Pericarditis

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I’m a 60-year-old, healthy guy but with a bad family history of heart attacks. So yesterday I freaked out when I had an acute upper chest pain that was worse when I breathed in and worse still when I lay down. I immediately made an emergency appointment with my internist, who ran an EKG and immediately sent me to a cardiologist who immediately called an ambulance and off I went to the nearest hospital. Many tests later it turned out it wasn’t a heart attack at all but pericarditi...Read the full article