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Atypical chest pain.
Chest pain is a common reason why patients seek medical consultation. Chest pain can be caused by life-threatening diseases and requires extensive diagnostic evaluation, especially to exclude acute cardiac pathologies. However, in the case of atypical chest pain with a normal electrocardiogram and serum levels of myocardial necrosis markers with in the reference ranges, non-cardiac causes of ch...
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Sir, We have read with interest the article on psychological factors in patients with normal and abnormal angiographic findings by Dave and Dhavale (1999) in Indian Journal of Psychiatry. The authors have brought out that patients with atypical chest pain had lower prevalence of type A behaviour and a unique 16-PF profile. However following points require reconsideration. Similar studies by Kat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Internal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2168-6106
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1187