Hyperactive Child With Chest Pain

Recurrent chest pain in the well child.

INTRODUCTION Chest pain is a common symptom in paediatric practice and a frequent cause of attendance to general practitioners and hospital outpatients’ departments. Public education campaigns have emphasised its potentially serious cause in adults, namely ‘a heart attack’, leading to heightened concern when it occurs in a child.1 2 However, in children it is typically benign and self-limiting,...

Chest Pain

اغلب بیماران می پندارند که درد قفسه (Chest Pain) نشانگر به سکته قلبی است. البته الزاماً این طور نیست، درد ممکن است منشا ریوی، معده - روده ای، روانی یا ماهیچه ای - استخوانی داشته باشد، وقتی دو مورد و یا بیشتر از آن با هم همراه شوند، علائم بروز می کند. همه اینها تشخیص درد سینه را مشکل می سازد. فقط با جداکردن علائم فردی و بیماریهای مربوط به آن می توانید یک تصویر تشخیصی معین و واضحی را ترسیم کنید. 

Young lady with chest pain.

A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at 0730 hrs with a 3-hour history of sharp right-sided chest pain without radiation. She denied having shortness of breath, cough or fever. She had not sustained any trauma or undergone any surgical procedure recently. Although a smoker, she had no other significant past medical or family history. At the time, she was not on any prescrip...

The Hyperactive Child. Diagnosis, Management, Current Research

This book contains a collection of 26 papers that were presented at an International Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, August, 1974. It is divided into two sections entitled "Metabolism and Binding" (15 papers) and "Thyroid Hormone Function in Clinical Investigation" (11 papers). The first section begins with an authoritative review by J. Robbins on the structure and function of serum thyroxine-t...

Accidental poisoning and the hyperactive child syndrome.