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Diagnostic dilemma: A joyful wedding nearly broke a woman's heart in a rare case of 'happy heart syndrome'


A 65-year-old woman arrived at the ER with textbook signs of a heart attack — but the real trigger turned out to be joy, not a blocked artery.

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