\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n\u00a0<\/span>CC: \u201cI woke up this morning at 6 a.m. with numbness in my left arm and pain in my chest. It feels tight right here (mid-sternal).\u201d \u201cMy dad had a heart attack when he was 56-years-old and I am scared because I am 56-years-old.\u201d\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>HPI: Patient is a 56-year-old Caucasian male who presents to Express Hospital \u202fEmergency Department with a chief complaint of chest pain that radiates down his left arm. He states this started this morning and has been getting worse, pointing to the mid-sternal area, \u201cit feels like an elephant is sitting on my chest and having a hard time breathing\u201d. He rates the pain as 9\/10. Nothing has made the pain better or worse. He denies any previous episode of chest pain. Denies nausea, or lightheadedness. Nitroglycerin 0.4 mg tablet sublingual x 1 which decreased pain to 7\/10.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Lipid panel reveals Total Cholesterol 424 mg\/dl, high density lipoprotein (HDL) 26 mg\/dl, Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) 166 mg\/dl, Triglycerides 702 mg\/dl, Very Low-Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) 64 mg\/dl<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>His diagnosis is an acute inferior wall myocardial infarction.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n