EC Orthopaedics

Case Report Volume 15 Issue 1 - 2023

The Masked Heart Attack in a 72-Year-Old Man with Chronic Neck Pain

Ekkehard Pietsch1* and Christian Dirk Keller2

1Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma, The-Expert-Witness.de, Hamburg, Germany

2Department for Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Geesthacht, Germany

*Corresponding Author: Ekkehard Pietsch, Orthopaedic and General Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma, The-Expert-Witness.de, Hamburg, Germany.
Received: December 26, 2023; Published: January 05, 2024



Neck pain has a high lifetime prevalence and often progresses chronically. We report on an elderly man in whom a subtle change in the quality of his chronic complaints was indicative of an acute myocardial ischemia. The atypical presentation should prompt the clinician to consider this potentially life-threatening differential diagnosis.

Keywords: Neck Pain; Ischemic Heart Attack; Myocardial Ischemia; Neck Pain in Myocardial Ischemia

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Ekkehard Pietsch and Christian Dirk Keller. "The Masked Heart Attack in a 72-Year-Old Man with Chronic Neck Pain." EC Orthopaedics 15.1 (2024): 01-05.

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