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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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Chest pain is a common presenting symptom in the emergency department. After ruling out emergent causes, emergency physicians need to identify and manage less commonly encountered conditions. Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a rare congenital condition involving pulmonary parenchyma. In PS, a portion of non-functional lung tissue receives systemic blood supply from an anomalous artery. While mos...
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Chest pain is common, and tends to be overinvestigated. Patients with normal coronary anatomy have a low mortality, but remain significantly incapacitated. We discuss ways of improving the management of such patients. An early diagnosis of a non-cardiac cause of pain should be made, ideally by the general practitioner, taking account of risk factors for cardiac as well as psychological disorder...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0002-9343
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.04.017