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Answers:
1. Angina, myocardial infarction,
pulmonary embolus, reflux esophagitis, gastrointestinal bleed, diabetic
ketoacidosis.
2.
EKG, troponin levels, CBC, glucose, chest X rays, guiac stool.
3.
Figure 1:
a. Acute myocardial infarction.
b. Severe coronary atherosclerosis with occlusive thrombus.
4.
Papillary muscle infarction. Figure 2
illustrates the pathogenesis of this.
5. Stroke secondary to a thromboembolus
from a mural thrombus over the infarcted left ventricle.
Figure 3 is the gross picture of this answer.
6. Re-infarction, rupture of the
myocardial infarction.
7. Figure 4:
Ruptured myocardial infarction
with bleeding into the pericardial cavity (not shown).
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