Objective. Noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) is seen more frequently in young population and in these patients loss of function is evolving in social and professional areas. The aim of the study is to evaluate the levels of anxiety and somatic perception in patients with chest pain presenting to cardiology clinic. Methods. Fifty-one patients with noncardiac chest pain and 51 healthy controls were included in the study. All participants performed self-report based health anxiety inventory (HAI), somatosensory amplification scale (SAS), and Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS). Results. The patient group had significantly higher scores on the SAS, HAI-1, and HAI-T scales compared to controls (P < 0.001, P = 0.006, and P = 0.038, resp.). SAS, HAI-1, and HAI-T scores were significantly higher in female patients than male (P = 0.002, 0.036, and 0.039, resp.). There were significant differences in all TAS subscale scores between two groups. Patients, who had total TAS score more than 50, also presented higher ...

Effects of omeprazole versus placebo in treatment of noncardiac chest pain and gastroesophageal reflux. - S R Achem, B E Kolts, T MacMath, J Richter, D Mohr, L Burton, D O Castell

Care guide for Noncardiac Chest Pain. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.

Heart of the Matter: The answer hides in the genes for this teenager experiencing atypical chest pain.A FIT, young, athletic 17-year-old complains of new onset intermittent atypical chest pain and presyncope.There has been no exertional component to the chest discomfort. He has not had any syncope. There is no family history of cardiac disease. In particular, there are no family members with sudden unexpected death under the age of 50. He has a normal physical examination with no audible murmurs. Heart of the Matter: The answer hides in the genes for this teenager.

Patients diagnosed with non-cardiac chest pain are reluctant to believe they do not have heart disease. A new study shows that explaining the test results convinces patients and reduces the likelihood of future chest pain. The research is presented at EACVI-Best of Imaging 2020, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

List of 20 causes of Acute chest pain (Acute chest pain symptoms), patient stories, diagnosis questions, and associated symptoms.

We painted the perfect picture for you in your cardiac emergencies lecture in your EMT class. The pain felt like a pressure. It was brought on by exertion. It radiated to the left arm and through to the back. Sometimes, in your EMT skills stations, we would get fancy and have it begin at rest and radiate to the jaw. Just trying to keep you on your toes after all.. All this stuff is good to know. But we may have done you a disservice. You may be walking around with the idea that you can do a quick OPQRST and a SAMPLE and walk away with a fairly good feel for whether or not your patient is having a heart attack. You may be dead wrong.. What we may not have told you was that a large percentage of your patients suffering acute myocardial infarction wont look anything like this. Atypical cardiac chest pain, those folks who have heart attacks but dont quite feel like theyre supposed to feel, are actually very common. Common enough that we may need to think of a new name for them. Research says that ...

Another name for Cardiac Chest Pain is Angina. Prevention is the key to managing the risk for angina. Other conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure ...

Professor Nadeem Qamar Executive Director, NICVD and Secretary to Governing Body formally inaugurated the 6th Chest Pain Unit - CPU on Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at Railway road, opposite to Miskeen Gali near I.I. Chundrigar Road.. National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases - NICVD introduced a new era of heart healthcare with the inauguration of its first CPU under Gulshan-e-Iqbal Chowrangi Flyover, Second under Gulbai Flyover, third under Malir Halt Flyover, fourth under Qayyumabad Chowrangi, 5th under Nagan Chowrangi flyover have been serving people successfully and treating thousands of patients monthly. This service is one of its kind and is available for 24/7 throughout the year.. These Chest Pain Units are well-equipped facilities and have the appropriate diagnostic testing available to identify patients with an acute heart attack and is also equipped to resuscitate patients who become unstable. CPUs are functionally design for providing preliminary emergency care to heart attack ...

National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in its efforts to provide first tier of heart care facilities to the patients at their doorsteps has opened its 5th Chest Pain Unit, at Nagan Chowrangi here. Executive Director, NICVD, Professor Nadeem Qamar talking to APP Thursday said with the support of Sindh government and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, a chain of Chest Pain Units (CPUs) are planned for the ever expanding metropolis.. Sharing details of the initiative, he said each of these CPUs are well-equipped with appropriate diagnostic facilities along with efficient arrangements to resuscitate patients who may arrive in unstable condition.. CPUs are functionally designed to provide preliminary emergency care to heart attack patients and after providing initial treatment, the patients are shifted immediately to the tertiary care setup at NICVD Cath Lab, the NICVD chief elaborated.. On basis of the available record, he said a significant number of complainants were those with ...

Chest pain is a common reason for hospital admission. In most patients with chest pain, acute coronary artery disease (CAD) is the major concern. Nitrates often are used in emergency treatment of acute chest pain, but relief with nitrates is an uncertain diagnostic and prognostic sign. Because nitro-glycerin can relieve symptoms of noncardiac chest pain, including esophageal spasm, its value as a tool in the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease is questionable. Henrikson and associates conducted a prospective study to determine the usefulness of chest pain response to nitroglycerin as an indicator of ischemic coronary disease.. Patients who had documented chest pain while under medical supervision were given nitroglycerin. A chest pain response to the first dose of nitroglycerin was defined as a 50 percent or greater decrease in pain intensity within five minutes of nitroglycerin administration. The presence of active CAD was determined for all participants. Active CAD was defined as elevated ...

The salient findings of this study are the following: (1) Many patients with angina in the absence of obstructive CAD have occult coronary abnormalities; (2) on the other hand, a significant minority have no coronary reason to explain their symptoms; and (3) a comprehensive invasive functional, physiological, and anatomic coronary assessment allows safe stratification of patients without angiographic disease into specific potential causes for their chest pain.. Angina and myocardial ischemia are typically caused by flow-limiting lesions in the epicardial coronary arteries. When coronary angiography fails to reveal obstructive epicardial atherosclerosis, a diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain is often given. Alternatively, in some cases, microvascular dysfunction is the presumptive diagnosis, and antianginal therapy is instituted or escalated. In the former scenario, effective therapy and a potentially improved outcome may be withheld from a patient, whereas in the latter case, overtreatment ...

The current investigation will address some similar factors considered in prior research, but will considerably extend our understanding of how psychological, familial, and environmental factors influence noncardiac chest pain. In this investigation, a number of variables that have not been considered in prior research in this area will be included. Among these child variables are: the childrens pain coping strategies, the childrens somatization behaviors aside from chest pain, the childrens externalizing symptoms (e.g., symptoms of ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder), school related problems, social competencies, parental perceptions of the childs vulnerability, functional disability (the degree to which chest pain interferes with normal daily functioning), and the childs health care utilization. Also, a more sensitive quantification of the childrens frequency and intensity of chest pain will be collected, as well as information on situations in which the pain occurs. Parent report of ...

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Given the wide knowledge gaps in the evaluation of patients with low and intermediate pretest probability stable chest pain and the ubiquity of noninvasive imaging the below mentioned largest, most comprehensive and timely randomized clinical trials (RCTs), provide valuable insights into risk stratification, diagnosis, management, prognostication, and outcomes. Rapid clinical assessment of patients with low/intermediate-risk stable chest pain can identify high-risk individuals. However, about 33% of patients labeled as noncardiac chest pain die from cardiovascular disease or develop acute coronary syndrome (ACS) during 5 years follow-up. About 1.5% of patients with ACS are missed even after extensive testing leading to potential medical, legal, and psychological sequelae. As a result, clinicians have a low threshold to admit even low risk patients for prolonged expensive observation and testing leading to unnecessary admissions, false-positive test results, and unnecessary invasive downstream ...

Many individuals incorrectly assume that because a patients chest pain is relieved with nitroglycerine, the pain is more likely to be cardiac in nature. In examining this question, Henrikson and colleagues [39] found a higher incidence of relief of chest pain in patients without ACS than those with active ischemia. Steele and colleagues [40] also found that nitroglycerine relieved chest pain in 66% of patients who were ultimately diagnosed with noncardiac chest pain. This data shows that chest-pain relief by nitroglycerine had no value in predicting or disproving ACS. Similarly, physicians have used the GI cocktail (a mixture of antacids and viscous lidocaine) to prove the likelihood of a GI cause and disprove the presence of ACS. There is no recent literature supporting the use of the GI cocktail for differentiating these types of pain, but the practice persists. Many physicians believe that burning substernal pain relieved by antacids is clearly caused by esophagitis or gastritis. Subsequent ...

Common abdominal syndromes. Gastroesophageal reflux disease - GERD. History: heartburn, chest pain, regurgitation, acidic taste in mouth, dysphagia, odynophagia, extraesophageal: cough, asthma, noncardiac chest pain Characteristics: increase in laying position Slideshow 6349597 by gil-levine

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TY - JOUR. T1 - Cholesterol screening in an ED-based chest pain unit. AU - Diercks, Deborah B.. AU - Kirk, J. Douglas. AU - Turnipseed, Samuel D.. AU - Gershoff, Leslie. AU - Amsterdam, Ezra A.. PY - 2002/10. Y1 - 2002/10. N2 - To evaluate the prevalence of dyslipidemia in patients who are evaluated in a chest pain evaluation unit (CPEU) a prospective study of all patients admitted to our CPEU from January 1 to December 31, 1999 was conducted. Serum total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) levels were obtained unless prior levels were known or at the discretion of the attending physician. Both TC and HDL were tested in 606 (59%) patients. Abnormal lipid levels were reported in 306 (50%) patients. Of these, 86 had both abnormal TC and HDL. Isolated low HDL levels were found in 60 of the patients and TC alone was abnormal in 160. Of the 246 patients with abnormal TC, 169 (69%) had borderline high levels (200-239mg/dL) and 77 (31%) had high levels (≥240 mg/dL). Our study shows a ...

Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is a common disorder whose pathophysiology is poorly understood. Some evidence suggests it may be related to sustained esophageal contractions (SECs) of longitudinal smooth muscle. The investigators have previously shown that acid is a trigger for SECs and results in shortening of the esophagus. In this study, the investigators plan to prospectively evaluate esophageal shortening responses to acid in a group of patients with NCCP compared to controls. The investigators will use high resolution esophageal manometry coupled with acid infusion to evaluate shortening. The investigators hypothesize that at least a subset of patients with NCCP will have an exaggerated esophageal shortening response to acid which correlates with symptom production. If our hypothesis proves true, this may lead to a future therapeutic target in the treatment of these patients ...

Journal club critical appraisal of clinical judgement and gestalt in the diagnosis of patients with chest pain in the ED. St.Emlyns

TY - JOUR. T1 - Noninvasive strategies for the estimation of cardiac risk in stable chest pain patients. AU - Shaw, Leslee J.. AU - Hachamovitch, Rory. AU - Heller, Gary V.. AU - Marwick, Thomas H.. AU - Travin, Mark I.. AU - Iskandrian, Ami E.. AU - Kesler, Karen. AU - Lauer, Michael S.. AU - Hendel, Robert. AU - Borges-Neto, Salvador. AU - Lewin, Howard C.. AU - Berman, Daniel S.. AU - Miller, Donald D. PY - 2000/7/1. Y1 - 2000/7/1. N2 - Effective allocation of medical resources in stable chest pain patients requires the accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease and the stratification of future cardiac risk. We studied the relative predictive value for cardiac death of 3 commonly applied noninvasive strategies, clinical assessment, stress electrocardiography, and myocardial perfusion tomography, in a large, multicenter population of stable angina patients. The multicenter observational series comprised 7 community and academic medical centers and 8,411 stable chest pain patients. All ...

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Trans-thoracic colour Doppler echocardiography revealed continuous turbulence at the apex of the right ventricle, without right ventricular dilation or pulmonary hypertension.. Coronary angiography showed a severely dilated and tortuous LAD and magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the suspicion of a congenital fistula between the left anterior descending coronary artery and the right ventricle.. At surgery the presence of a severely dilated and tortuous LAD was confirmed, without evidence of dissection.. Chest pain in patients with a coronary fistula can be caused by coronary steal, coronary dissection, or myocardial infarction.. Pre-operative stress MIBI-technetium imaging in this patient did not reveal any perfusion defects.. ...

Chest pain on left side is often taken as a sign of heart attack. Angina is another crucial type of chest pain that is caused by excessive physical exertion or stress. It is particularly considered as a warning sign when it occurs during rest. Nonetheless, pain in left side of chest could also indicate minor issues like acidity and heartburn.. Heart Attack: Let us first discuss left sided chest pain as a sign of heart attack. It usually arises in the mid to left side of the chest and may extend to the left shoulder, the left arm, the jaw, the stomach, or the back.. The condition is often accompanied by other symptoms like breathlessness, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, abdominal discomfort, excessive sweating etc. Cardiac pain generally involves the center of the chest or upper abdomen.. Angina: Angina is another serious form of left side chest pain that is considered as a primary symptom of Coronary Artery Disease. It is typically described as a choking pain or a feeling of constriction, ...

Chest pain on left side is often taken as a sign of heart attack. Angina is another crucial type of chest pain that is caused by excessive physical exertion or stress. It is particularly considered as a warning sign when it occurs during rest. Nonetheless, pain in left side of chest could also indicate minor issues like acidity and heartburn.. Heart Attack: Let us first discuss left sided chest pain as a sign of heart attack. It usually arises in the mid to left side of the chest and may extend to the left shoulder, the left arm, the jaw, the stomach, or the back.. The condition is often accompanied by other symptoms like breathlessness, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, abdominal discomfort, excessive sweating etc. Cardiac pain generally involves the center of the chest or upper abdomen.. Angina: Angina is another serious form of left side chest pain that is considered as a primary symptom of Coronary Artery Disease. It is typically described as a choking pain or a feeling of constriction, ...

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TY - JOUR. T1 - Cost-effectiveness of cardiac biomarkers as screening test in acute chest pain. AU - Shams-Vahdati, Samad. AU - Vand-Rajavpour, Zahra. AU - Paknezhad, Seyed-Pouya. AU - Piri, Reza. AU - Moghaddasi-Ghezeljeh, Elnaz. AU - Mirabolfathi, Saba. AU - Naghavi-Behzad, Mohammad. PY - 2014. Y1 - 2014. N2 - INTRODUCTION: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Associated findings of electrocardiograph (ECG) are rather heterogeneous, and traditional cardiac biomarkers such as Creatine Kinase-MB (CK-MB) suffer from low cardiac specificity and sensitivity. In this study cost effectiveness of cardiac biomarkers single quantitative measurement was examined.METHODS: The present descriptive-analytic study conducted on patients who were asked for troponin I and CK-MB. All patients who referred to Emergency unit of Tabriz Imam Reza educational-medical center during January 2012 to July the 2013 were included ...

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The sooner you can get to hospital, the better your chances of recovery. Emergency services will send an ambulance or arrange other transport for you - dont attempt to drive yourself.. What are some other causes of chest pain?. It is important to keep in mind that chest pain is a symptom of an underlying problem, ranging from insignificant to very serious. When you experience chest pain, even if you have none of the other symptoms mentioned above, you should still contact your doctor - especially if you also have a fever or cough, or the pain lasts for more than 24 hours. Some other causes of chest pain are:. ...

Doctor: Hello.Welcome to Ask The Doctor.I understand your concern.I have following diagnosis for you:1. Muscular Pain wi th.2. Cardiac Chest pain.3. Acid reflux.It is important to differentiate between the all as the treatment course is entirely different.The Muscular chest pain aggravates with movement. It is dull, diffuse and continuous in nature.However, the Cardiac chest pain is severe and crushing in nature. It increases on activity like walking, exercising. It also radiated to left arm.In such scenario, i would advise to get an ECG and Chest Xray done. This will give an idea that pain is cardiac in nature or not.If the ECG and Chest Xray are normal, the pain is probably Muscular or due to Acid reflux.For acid reflux, i would advise you to take a combination of Pantoprazole and Domperidone once a day.I advise following to my patients in case of Muscular pain:1. To do hot fomentation over the involved area 3-4 times a day.2. To apply Diclofenac Gel locally over the involved area.3. To take ...

YOUNG adults presenting to general practice with unexplained chest pain (UCP) return earlier and more frequently than patients with diagnosed coronary artery disease (CAD), US researchers say.In a retrospective study, nearly 750,000 US veterans, median age 34, were followed from 2001 to 2010. The 20,521 with UCP had recurrent chest pain earlier and 1.5 times more frequently than the 5303 with known CAD.The authors hypothesised that patients with UCP felt their chest pain was less controllable and less understandable than those with CAD. Patients present to GPs earlier and more frequently than those with diagnosed coronary artery disease.

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A 39 y/o male came with severe chest pain and breathlessness. He was drinking with his friends at a party, after having 300 ml of alcohol he started complaining of chest heaviness & fast breathing. When symptoms did not resolve for 2 minutes he was taken to the hospital. He denied intake of any other substance. BP: 130/80 mmhg, HR: 210 bpm, Resp rate: 18 breath/min, O2 saturating at 88% at room air. ECG shows right ventricular tachycardia with left bundle branch pattern and inferior axis pattern. TSH was 1.0 IU/ml. S magnesium was 1.5 mg/dL, Potassium was 4.2 mmol/L at the time of admission. What is your opinion on the case?

If there is a flood of the river to see what will happen if there is a blockage? The water pressure is build there until the obstacle is cleared away. Sometimes the chakras are clogged, dull and uneven. If the cosmic energy to work a chakra to clear an obstruction or blockage, temporary prana or bioenergy pressure being built there, which creates the unpleasant pain and tension in the corresponding part of the physical body. Why is felt severe chest pain while exercising psychological techniques? Heart chakra: thoughts and emotions are stored in the heart chakra. The physical root chakra point of this ridge directly behind the center of the chest in the line of the heart. physical disease starts out as a suppression of feelings and emotions. Pain, anger, fear, sadness, apathy, guilt, loss of consciousness and some negative thoughts and emotional patterns that are blocking the heart chakra and obvious, such as stress, pain and tangled power to cheat the region. Universal life force energy ...

The noninvasive imaging modality coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) offers a means to evaluate these patients with chest pain symptoms both safely and efficiently.

List of disease causes of Pulmonary causes of acute chest pain, patient stories, diagnostic guides. Diagnostic checklist, medical tests, doctor questions, and related signs or symptoms for Pulmonary causes of acute chest pain.

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I have severe chest pain that started a couple of days ago. On day number one I went to a doctor and he had an EKG done on me. He came back and said has anybody told you you may have an enlarged lef...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients assessed in an emergency department (ED) for chest pain with a non-ischaemic ECG, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) score of 0 and initial troponin I (TnI) ≤99th centile.. METHODS: This was a sub-study of a prospective observational study of adult patients with potentially cardiac chest pain who underwent evaluation for acute coronary syndrome in an urban teaching hospital. Adult patients with non-traumatic chest pain were eligible for inclusion. Those with ECG evidence of acute ischaemia or an alternative diagnosis were excluded. Data collected included demographic, clinical, ECG, biomarker and outcome data. Low risk was defined as a TIMI risk score of 0 and initial TnI ≤99th centile. Primary outcome of interest was defined as MACE within 7 days. MACE included death, cardiac arrest, revascularisation, cardiogenic shock, arrhythmia, and prevalent (cause of presentation) and incident (occurring ...

Chest pain is usually associated with heart disease. Many times, however, chest pains are due to gastrointestinal dysfunction. Patients naturally need to be assured that their heart is not the cause of chest pains, but once that testing is negative, attention is often given to GI problems. It turns out that ulcers of the esophagus or stomach, esophagitis, gastritis, and esophageal infections can all cause chest pains. Esophageal spasm, which may be due to severe stress, may also cause chest pains that are similar to cardiac chest pains.. Heart related chest pain usually occurs after some exertion or exercise (heavy lifting, straining, walking stairs, running, etc.). There may be a sharp or pressure pain. With radiation to the left arm, sweats, shortness of breath and even nausea. It usually improves after resting and can resolve in 5-10 minutes.. Gastrointestinal chest pain usually occurs without exertion, can occur at night or at rest. It is usually of longer duration. It may radiate to the ...

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Rapid access chest pain clinics have facilitated the early diagnosis and treatment of patients with coronary heart disease and angina. Despite this important service provision, coronary heart disease continues to be under-diagnosed and many patients are left untreated and at risk. Recent advances in imaging technology have now led to the widespread use of noninvasive computed tomography, which can be used to measure coronary artery calcium scores and perform coronary angiography in one examination. However, this technology has not been robustly evaluated in its application to the clinic. The SCOT-HEART study is an open parallel group prospective multicentre randomized controlled trial of 4,138 patients attending the rapid access chest pain clinic for evaluation of suspected cardiac chest pain. Following clinical consultation, participants will be approached and randomized 1:1 to receive standard care or standard care plus ≥64-multidetector computed tomography coronary angiography and coronary calcium

Results 156 patients were included (Males n=68, females n=88; mean age 52.2±8.7). The median RD received was 4.45 mSv (0.48-20.59); patients scanned in the newer generation CT scanner received significantly less RD than those in the older scanner (median 2.54 (0.48-8.75) vs 11.55(8.07-20.59) mSv respectively, p,0.001). Ninety-six patients had a CaS=0 (male=32, female=64, mean age 50±9 years); of these, 5 (5.5%; mean age 47.7±14.7 years) had significant CAD of which 3 underwent intervention on prognostic grounds. Those with a CaS ,1 were significantly older (mean age 55±7 years, p,0.001; male=36, female=24) with a higher proportion of significant CAD (36.7%, n=22;). Of those who NICE would have recommended had XA as their first line investigation (ie, PL 60-90%; n=26), 50% (n=13) had no pathology. Of those with PL of ,90%, who NICE would have recommended to treat as stable angina without investigation (n=8), 3 had prognostic disease requiring either percutaneous or surgical ...

March 27, 2017 -- A 51-year-old man presented with atypical chest pain. As part of his workup and coronary artery disease risk stratification, the patient underwent a coronary CT angiography scan.. Dr. Charbel Saade, PhD, from the department of radiology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Lebanon, has developed a special interactive case report about this patient. Click here to review the case. ...

Oct 14, 2019. Heartburn feels like a burning in the chest and throat, and is a. Pain may be cramping, dull, or sharp, and often strikes minutes after you eat.. Your sternum, or breastbone, connects the two sides of your rib cage together. It sits in front of many major organs located in your chest and gut, including your heart, lungs, and stomach. As a.. Apr 15, 2019. There can be many other causes, such as heartburn, lung infection, and others. Sudden, Sharp Chest Pain That Goes Away: What Is It?. people confuse the symptoms of heart attack with symptoms of acid reflux disease. Thats because pain in the chest can feel like heartburn. When in doubt, call your doctor. The American College of.. Apr 23, 2019. Both heartburn and heart attacks can cause pain in the center of the chest. noncardiac chest pain tends to feel like an intense stabbing or.. Chest pain related to angina is often mistaken for indigestion or heartburn, but doctors can perform tests to rule this out quickly. Angina is usually ...

Exploring the information needs of patients with unexplained chest pain Ingrid Ølfarnes Røysland,1 Elin Dysvik,1 Bodil Furnes,1 Febe Friberg1,2 1Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway; 2Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden Background: Unexplained chest pain is a common condition. Despite negative findings, a large number of these patients will continue to suffer from chest pain after being investigated at cardiac outpatient clinics. Unexplained chest pain covers many possible complaints, and diagnosing a single cause for a patients pain is often described as difficult, as there are a number of possible factors that can contribute to the condition. For health professionals to meet patients expectations, they must know more about the information needs of patients with unexplained chest pain. The aim of this study was to describe information needs among patients with

OBJECTIVES: To ascertain the value of a range of methods - including clinical features, resting and exercise electrocardiography, and rapid access chest pain clinics (RACPCs) - used in the diagnosis and early management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), suspected acute myocardial infarction (MI), and exertional angina. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library and electronic abstracts of recent cardiological conferences. REVIEW METHODS: Searches identified studies that considered patients with acute chest pain with data on the diagnostic value of clinical features or an electrocardiogram (ECG); patients with chronic chest pain with data on the diagnostic value of resting or exercise ECG or the effect of a RACPC. Likelihood ratios (LRs) were calculated for each study, and pooled LRs were generated with 95% confidence intervals. A Monte Carlo simulation was performed evaluating different assessment strategies for suspected ACS, and a discrete event simulation evaluated models for the

Chaikriangkrai, K.; Palamaner Subash Shantha, G.; Jhun, H.Yeon.; Ungprasert, P.; Sigurdsson, G.; Nabi, F.; Mahmarian, J.J.; Chang, S.Min., 2016: Prognostic Value of Coronary Artery Calcium Score in Acute Chest Pain Patients Without Known Coronary Artery Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Acute chest pain is responsible for approximately 700,000 patient attendances per year at emergency departments in England and Wales. A single centre study of selected patients suggested that chest pain unit (CPU) care could be less costly and more effective than routine care for these patients, although a more recent multi-centre study cast doubt on the generalisability of these findings. Our economic evaluation involved modelling data from the ESCAPE multi-centre trial along with data from other sources to estimate the comparative costs and effects of CPU versus routine care. Cost effectiveness ratios (cost per QALY) were generated from our model. We found that CPU compared to routine care resulted in a non-significant increase in effectiveness of 0.0075 QALYs per patient and a non-significant cost decrease of £32 per patient and thus a negative incremental cost effectiveness ratio. If we are willing to pay £20,000 for an additional QALY then there is a 70% probability that CPU care will be

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Non-cardiac chest pain is a term used to describe chest pain that resembles heart pain (also called angina) in patients who do not have heart disease. The pain typically is felt behind the breast bone (sternum) and is described as oppressive, squeezing or pressure-like. This can be caused by a variety of factors including gastroesophageal reflux, esophageal motility disorders, and/or biliary and pancreatic disorders.. ...

Approximately 15-20 million people in Europe and the United States go to the emergency department every year with chest pain. Many can be discharged early if they are not having an acute coronary syndrome. A large, new, single-center observational study, presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Washington, DC and published simultaneously in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, provides fresh evidence that high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) may be useful in helping identify chest pain patients in the emergency department who do not need to be admitted to the hospital.. Nadia Bandstein reported on 14,636 patients who presented to the emergency department at a Swedish hospital and had a hs-cTnT test. Of these, 61% (8,907) had a hs-cTnT below 5 ng/l. At 30 days, only 0.44% (39) of these patients had an MI. None of the patients in this group died. A total of 15 had MIs with no ischemic ECG changes. The authors calculated a negative predictive value of ...

CHEST PAIN EVALUATION TOOL Chest pain or discomfort is one of the commonest causes for presentation to the Emergency Room (ER) or physicians office. There are many causes for chest discomfort. The serious

This study was performed to investigate the clinical significance of combined evaluation of both coronary artery disease (CAD) and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) for prediction of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We performed clinical evaluations, including coronary artery imaging and hs-cTnT measurement, in 162 patients with HCM. The patients were followed up for a median period of 3.7 years (interquartile range 2.4-5.6 years; total of 632.3 person-years [PYs]), during which time MACEs occurred in 24 (14.8%) patients. The incidence of MACEs was 6.4 and 2.7 per 100 PYs for patients with CAD and normal coronary arteries, respectively; similarly, the incidence was 5.8 and 2.1 per 100 PYs in patients with an elevated hs-cTnT concentration (| 14.0 ng/L) and a normal hs-cTnT concentration, respectively. The multivariate analysis suggested that CAD and an elevated hs-cTnT concentration tended to be positively associated with MACEs.

We addressed the accuracy of Lung Ultrasound (LUS) to detect pneumothorax in children with acute chest pain evaluated in the pediatric Emergency Department (pED). Methods We prospectively analyzed patients from 5 to 17 years of age with acute chest pain and clinical suspicion of pneumothorax (PNX) evaluated at a tertiary level pediatric hospital. After clinical examination and before Chest X-Ray (CXR), children underwent LUS to evaluate the presence of PNX. Results We enrolled 77 children, 44 (57,1 %) male, with median age of 10 years and 3 months (IQR 6 years and 9 months - 14 years and 2 months). Thirty (39%) children had interstitial lung disease; 20/77 (26%) had pneumonia with or without pleural effusions; 7/77 (9,1%) had thoracic trauma; 7/77 (9,1%) had a final diagnosis of myo/pericarditis and 13 (16,9%) received a final diagnosis of PNX. In all 13 patients LUS showed the

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a new accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) for possible cardiac chest pain could identify low-risk patients suitable for early discharge (with follow-up shortly after discharge). BACKGROUND: Patients presenting with possible acute coronary syndrome (ACS), who have a low short-term risk of adverse cardiac events may be suitable for early discharge and shorter hospital stays. METHODS: This prospective observational study tested an ADP that included pre-test probability scoring by the Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) score, electrocardiography, and 0 + 2 h values of laboratory troponin I as the sole biomarker. Patients presenting with chest pain due to suspected ACS were included. The primary endpoint was major adverse cardiac event (MACE) within 30 days. RESULTS: Of 1,975 patients, 302 (15.3%) had a MACE. The ADP classified 392 patients (20%) as low risk. One (0.25%) of these patients had a MACE, giving the ADP a ...

The purpose of this case repots are to evaluate the role of ST elevation in aVR lead and to make analysis between both cases. There are some atypical electrocardiogram (ECG) presentations which need prompt management in patient with ischemic clinical manifestation such as ST elevation in aVR lead. In this case study, we report a 68-year old woman with chief symptoms of shortness of breath and chest discomfort. She was diagnosed with cardiogenic shock, with Killip class IV, and TIMI score of 8. The second case is a 57-year-old man with typical chest pain at rest which could not be relieved with nitrate treatment ...

Dr Manterola and colleagues from Chile determined the prevalence of esophageal disorders associated with recurrent chest pain and the utility of esophageal functional tests in the study of these patients.. The research team conducted a cross-sectional study was conducted at Hospital Cl nico de La Frontera, Chile.. The team studies 123 patients with recurrent chest pain using esophageal manometry, edrophonium stimulation and 24 hour pH monitoring.. The researchers considered the performance of esophageal functional tests acceptable when they were capable of finding esophageal disorders.. To state the probability that recurrent chest pain had an esophageal origin, the investigators classified patients according to whether their pain had a probable, possible or unlikely esophageal origin.. The prevalence of esophageal disorders was determined according to diagnoses obtained after applying esophageal functional tests.. The researchers performed multivariate analysis to examine the association ...

The thesis also looks at the development of symptoms and the prognosis for patients with unexplained chest pain over a period of time, compared with patients suffering from angina and patients who had suffered a heart attack. A register study revealed that from 1987 up until 2000, the number of patients with diagnosed unexplained chest pain increased, and then leveled out. The number of patients with angina increased up until 1994 and has since fallen, while the number of patients who have suffered heart attacks has fallen throughout the whole period examined.. ...

For pleurisy and associated pleuritic chest pain, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are frequently prescribed as initial therapy to treat inflammation of the pleural space. NSAIDs are ideal because they do not cause a reduction in respiratory drive or affect the cough reflex. If NSAIDs are ineffective, contraindicated, or not tolerated, opioid analgesics may be used with caution.1,2 While it is assumed that a class effect occurs when NSAIDs are used, human studies on the use of NSAIDs to treat pleuritic chest pain have been limited to indomethacin.1 The recommended dosage of indomethacin for pleuritic chest pain is 50 to 100 mg orally up to three times daily with food or milk.1,10. In 1984, Klein evaluated the use of indomethacin in 17 patients with pleurisy. Patients evaluated their pain relief every 24 hours, rating it as excellent, good, fair, or poor. Eleven patients (65%) obtained good-to-excellent pain relief within 24 hours. Although patients had the option of selecting other ...

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TY - JOUR. T1 - Differences in diagnostic evaluation and clinical outcomes in the care of patients with chest pain based on admitting service. T2 - The benefits of a dedicated chest pain unit. AU - Somekh, Nir N.. AU - Rachko, Maurice. AU - Husk, Gregg. AU - Friedmann, Patricia. AU - Bergmann, Steven R.. PY - 2008/3/1. Y1 - 2008/3/1. N2 - Background: Chest pain is one of the most common complaints of patients presenting at emergency departments. However, the most appropriate diagnostic evaluation for patients with chest pain but without acute coronary syndrome remains controversial, and differs greatly among institutions and physicians. At our institution, patients with chest pain can be admitted to an internist-run hospitalist service, a private attending service, or a cardiologist-run Chest Pain Unit. The goal of the present study was to compare the management and outcomes of patients admitted with chest pain based on admitting service. Methods: The charts of 750 patients (250 consecutive ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_GRfzBpyEM Published on Mar 26, 2013 Pain with breathing is referred to medically as PLEURITIC PAIN. It can be caused by MANY things some of which CAN be life threatening. The worse ones will be pneumothorax, collapsed lung, cancer, or empyema. If you have pleuritic pain you need EMERGENT medical evaluation. Category Education

Chronic Pain Unit, from its initial launch phase on January 11th, 2010, is the specific focus within the Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Service, which aims to provide health coverage to patients with chronic pain in a comprehensive manner. The Unit meets the needs of these patients in our health department in terms of consultation and invasive techniques requiring their pathology.. The Pain Unit focuses on patients requiring interventional pain techniques, ranging from the infiltration of trigger points through nerve blocks, central blocks, sympathectomise, radiofrequency until neuromodulation techniques and spinal infusion.. The Chronic Pain Unit objectives in the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia (HCUV) are:. ...

Is Chest Discomfort a common side effect of Ranitidine? View Chest Discomfort Ranitidine side effect risks. Female, 48 years of age, weighting 70.00 lb, was diagnosed with breast cancer and took Ranitidine 50 Mg Milligram(s), Intravenous.

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Although Dresslers syndrome, also known as post-MI syndrome, was part of our initial differential diagnosis, further consideration ruled out this possibility. Dresslers syndrome occurs 1-12 weeks after MI in fewer than 5% of patients. It is an autoimmune process that presents as pericarditis with associated fever, leukocytosis, and, at times, pericardial or pleural effusion. Treatment typically consists of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or corticosteroids.1 Our patient had none of the characteristic findings of pericarditis. Sudden thrombotic occlusion, causing widespread ST elevations, was a possibility but of very low likelihood given the patients normal angiogram 10 days before her latest visit to the ED. Although its role in causing significant LV dysfunction and ST elevations is poorly recognized, coronary vasospasm was an early consideration and turned out to be crucial in this case. With the advent of coronary angiography has come the recognition that 1%-12% of patients have MI ...

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The subject of patients with recurrent chest pain but normal coronary arteries provokes controversy. The patients certainly exist, but their characterization and management is discomforting. Such patients are a heterogenous group, and there are difficulties in confidently sub-phenotyping many patients beyond their clinical presentation. Perhaps a majority will have symptoms that are unlikely to be related to the heart in which the coronary angiogram was performed primarily to exclude significant epicardial coronary stenosis. Coronary spasm is well recognized as a cause of chest pain of cardiac origin but is considered uncommon. Microvascular dysfunction occurs in conditions such as left ventricular hypertrophy of pressure or volume overload, cardiomyopathy, and diabetes, and these also might result in chest pain of likely cardiac origin, because of identifiable alterations in arteriolar structure and stress perfusion. And then there is cardiac syndrome X (CSX), in which patients mimic coronary ...

Study Objective: To assess the potential clinical impact of thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction by determining true-positive and false-positive rates of criteria for eligibility among emergency room patients with acute chest pain.. Design: Prospective multicenter cohort study.. Setting: Emergency rooms of three university and four community hospitals.. Patients: Emergency room patients (7734) with acute chest pain.. Measurements and Main Results: Only 261 (23%) of 1118 patients with acute myocardial infarctions were 75 years of age or younger, presented within 4 hours of the onset of pain, and had emergency room electrocardiograms showing probable acute myocardial infarction; 60 (0.9%) of the 6616 patients without infarction also met these criteria (positive predictive value, 261/321 = 81%; CI, 77% to 86%). The positive predictive value could increase to about 88% (CI, 82% to 93%) if eligibility were based on the official hospital electrocardiogram reading.. Conclusions: Because ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - What is an acceptable risk of major adverse cardiac event in chest pain patients soon after discharge from the Emergency Department? A clinical survey. AU - Than, Martin. AU - Herbert, Mel. AU - Flaws, Dylan. AU - Cullen, Louise. AU - Hess, Erik. AU - Hollander, Judd E.. AU - Diercks, Deborah. AU - Ardagh, Michael W.. AU - Kline, Jeffery A.. AU - Munro, Zea. AU - Jaffe, Allan. PY - 2013/7/1. Y1 - 2013/7/1. KW - Acceptable risk. KW - Acute myocardial infarction. KW - Early rule out. KW - Emergency medicine. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879921302&partnerID=8YFLogxK. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84879921302&partnerID=8YFLogxK. U2 - 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.09.171. DO - 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.09.171. M3 - Article. C2 - 23084108. AN - SCOPUS:84879921302. VL - 166. SP - 752. EP - 754. JO - International Journal of Cardiology. JF - International Journal of Cardiology. SN - 0167-5273. IS - 3. ER - ...

Background Unexplained chest suffering is normally a common state. with four females and three guys, aged 21C62 years. The interviews had been analyzed by qualitative content material analysis. Outcomes The full total email address details are defined in two subthemes, ie, suffering from lack of concentrate on person complications and suffering 87-11-6 manufacture from unanswered questions. We were holding abstracted beneath the primary theme experiencing unmet details requirements additional. Bottom line Existing types of consultations ought to be complemented to add a person-centered method of meeting sufferers values, perceptions, and expressions of emotions related to suffering from unexplained upper body pain. That Rabbit polyclonal to AIRE is consistent with a biopsychosocial model with energetic patient participation, distributed decision-making, along with a multidisciplinary strategy. This strategy is at the area of medical straight, and aims to take into consideration patient ...

Asthma and chest pain are related in some cases.Because of asthma chest pain and chest tightness are both some symptom of asthma .Asthma and chest pain are connected in some cases due to chest pain and chest tightness with some of the known symptoms of asthma. The asthma condition is an disorders and inflammation in your respiratory tract and can cause other symptoms such as wheezing,coughing and shortness of breath.. An onset of chest pain is a possible sign of asthma an also can develop from a variety of other causes, in addition to asthma. People with asthma chest pain may notice other asthma symptoms such as pulling in the skin between the ribs during breathing. Wheezing with asthma and chest pain may be intermittent, it may worsen in the morning and at night and may appear suddenly.. ...

The accuracy of 64-slice computed tomographic coronary angiography (CTCA) and its ability to direct revascularization in patients with acute chest pain syndrome (ACPS) was investigated in an article published in The American Journal of Cardiology on 08/09/2010.. Compared with invasive coronary angiography (ICA), the operating characteristics of CTCA (per-patient analysis) were excellent, with a sensitivity of 98%, a specificity of 100%, a positive predictive value of 100%, and negative predictive value of 97%. CTCA correctly identified 40 patients (100%) who underwent revascularization and 61 (91.0%) who were treated medically (κ = 0.88, 95% CI 0.79 to 0.97). In conclusion, CTA might represent a single modality that could be used to triage a wide spectrum of patients with ACPS and could have the potential to rule out coronary disease and identify those who might require revascularization.. ...

Emergency department patients with chest pain may safely be evaluated in the waiting room during periods of overcrowding, researchers said.

Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is inflammation of the membranes (pleurae) that surround the lungs and line the chest cavity. This can result in a sharp chest pain with breathing. A common, serious complication of thrombus formation within the deep venous circulation, PTE can cause chest pain on inspiration. n inflammatory condition of the pleural membranes marked by stabbing pain during inspiration. Possible causes include pneumonia, viral infections, cancer. Pain is described as a dull retrosternal discomfort similar to angina. I cannot get a diagnosis. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDspreferably indometacinare usually employed as pain control agents. Symptom Checker Pleuritic chest pain that exacerbates by deep inspiration: MA Institute of Technology, The pain may stay in one place, or it may spread to the shoulder or. Giant in the Shadows ...

Non-cardiac chest computer tomography (CT) is one of the most commonly ordered diagnostic imaging examinations for an initial evaluation of thoracic disorder...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...February 7, 2018 - A female patient treated by a female physician is less likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) compared to a male patient treated by a male physician, according to researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center (Soroka).. This gender bias, explored in a paper published in the current issue of QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, seems to occur most often when female doctors are recommending treatment for critically ill women. Previous studies show physicians are less likely to recognize symptoms that present differently in women, such as atypical chest pains, which can alter patient management and postpone delivery of crucial treatment, says Dr. Iftach Sagy, a researcher at Sorokas Clinical Research Center and a lecturer at the BGU Faculty of Health Sciences (FOHS). For the first time, weve demonstrated that a possible gender bias can influence decisions about who should be admitted to ...