(AURORA, COLORADO) Mr. V felt tightness across his chest. His deepest breaths felt shallow. He sought help at an emergency department, where a resident physician found several worrying signs, including swelling of his hands and legs as well as heart enlargement on a chest X-ray.
Everything seemed to point to one diagnosis: heart failure, where the heart’s inability to pump blood efficiently causes fluid to build up in the body. But one result did not fit.
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