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Young African American Male with Atypical Stabbing Chest Pain

An thin, athletic African American of age under 30 had some chest trauma and stabbing pain that was positional.  He had this ECG recorded:

There is sinus rhythm with high voltage.  The QTc is 392.  There is T-wave inversion in V2-V6.

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