منابع مشابه
Chest pain.
Approximately 6 million patients visit the emergency department (ED) each year with complaints of chest pain, constituting 9% of all patients seen in EDs in the United States. Over the last 10 years, the total number of ED patients with noninjury complaints increased by 22%, whereas the percentage of patients with chest pain decreased slightly. Chest pain is a symptom caused by several life-thr...
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Thirty five children with a primary complaint of chest pain were prospectively studied. The average age was 9.7 years for boys and 8. 9 years for girls 60% were male. The most frequently diagnosed cause was psychogenic (54.2%). Forty percent of the patients were classified as having idiopathic chest pain. Precordial pain was encountered in 2. 9%), along with costochondritis and mitral val...
متن کاملFainting After Chest Pain.
UNLABELLED Variant angina presenting acute chest pain and ST elevation on electrocardiogram accounts for an underdiagnosed scenario in acute coronary syndrome and contributes to syncope as a consequence of ventricular arrhythmia. Here, we report a case of a 48-year-old man with a recent onset of chest pain and palpitations followed by syncope. Holter monitoring documented 2 episodes of evolving...
متن کاملChest pain in children.
In a retrospective study of chest pain, 267 children were identified. This gave an occurrence rate (per patient visit) of 0.249%. Male patients were identified as often as female patients, and teenagers as often as children less than age 12 years. Chest pain was found to be present for more than 1 month in 8.6% and for more than 1 year in 7.8%. Idiopathic chest pain was the most common diagnosi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000027208.17824.d6