STUDY OBJECTIVE The prevalence of esophageal disorders (dysmotility and/or gastroesophageal reflux) in patients with chest pain newly referred to a cardiologic clinic is unknown. The aims of our study were to investigate the prevalence of esophageal abnormalities in these patients and to assess the value of medical history in predicting the origin of the patient's chest pain. DESIGN We evalua...

Trauma primarily affects young people and is the leading cause of death in the first three decades of life. Flail chest is observed in approximately 10% of all patients with severe chest trauma, and the mortality rate among such patients is 10-15%. We report herein the case of a car accident victim with chest trauma causing hemopneumothorax and multiple rib fractures, intense pain and deformity...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence of Rose angina and non-exertional chest pain in men and women in socioeconomically contrasting areas; to describe the proportions of men and women who present with the symptom of chest pain and who receive a provisional general practitioner diagnosis of coronary heart disease; to assess the effects of gender and deprivation. DESIGN Two random general popu...

background: aging has a growing trend in the world. the elderly experience a high incidence of hospitalization and coronary bypass surgery compared with other age groups, and pain is the most common complaint in these patients. this research was conducted to compare the effect of acupressure and cryotherapy on the pain of removing drain tube from the chest of the elderly who have undergone open...

conclusions: the results obtained from this study support the idea that the timi and modified timi risk scores might be valuable tools that could be used to stratify the risk of patients with atypical chest pain in the emergency department. results: no significant difference could be observed between both groups regarding demographic characteristics, ejection fraction, left ventricle hypertroph...

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...

introduction : although many protocols are available in the field of the prehospital medical care (pmc), there is still a notable gap between protocol based directions and applied clinical practice. this study measures the rate of protocol adherence in pmc provided for patients with chest pain and loss of consciousness (loc). method : in this cross-sectional study, 10 educated research assistan...

Introduction Aortic dissection is a rare and potentially fatal disease. It usually presents with severe chest pain radiating to the back, isolated back pain, or abdominal pain. 1 Atypical symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo, syncope, weakness or numbness are uncommon. The prevalence of neurologic symptoms in aortic dissection account for up to 42% of cases. 2 One study revealed that 29% of pati...

Re-expansion pulmonary edema occurs when the lung re-expands after an extended duration of collapse. It is rare with reported incidence between 0% and 1%. We present a case 51-year male who presented breathlessness, cough right-sided chest pain. Chest radiograph showed pneumothorax. After 2 hours tube insertion, patient developed tachypnea severe hypoxemia. HRCT revealed consolidation, ground g...

introduction: chest pain is a common problem in patients referring to emergency units. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the short-term outcome of patients presenting with a low risk chest pain and discharging without provoke ischemia study during emergency department admission. methods: in the present prospective cohort study, patients with low-risk chest pain, referring to the emer...