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Pleuritic chest pain in a patient who had undergone recent surgical repair of a patent foramen ovale

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  1. Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Todd A. Seigel

  2. Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jason W. Ryan

  3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, One Deaconess Road, 02215, Boston, MA, USA

    Michael M. Woodruff

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Seigel, T.A., Ryan, J.W. & Woodruff, M.M. Pleuritic chest pain in a patient who had undergone recent surgical repair of a patent foramen ovale. Int Emergency Med 1, 239–242 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02934747

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