in any patient with a history of penetrating thoracic trauma, cardiac injury must be kept in mind. here, we describe a 36 years-old female referred to this hospital with severe chest pain and hypotension. after primary evaluation and suggestion of ami, streptokinase was started for the patient and because of deterioration of vital signs, cardiac surgery consultation was requested. after perform...

echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique which provides information regarding cardiac function and hemodynamics. it is the most frequently used cardiovascular diagnostic test after electrocardiography and chest x-ray. however, in a patient with acute chest pain, transthoracic echocardiography is essential both for diagnosing acute coronary syndrome, zeroing on the evaluation of v...

BACKGROUND Chest pain is a frequent chief complaint among the pediatric population. To date, limited data exist on the full spectrum of emergent cardiac disease among such patients; and existing data have been limited to relatively small cohorts. OBJECTIVES The aims of the study were to investigate the emergent cardiac etiologies of chest pain in a large cohort of patients presenting to a ter...

Non-cardiac chest pain is a common disorder that leads to costly evaluations to distinguish it from cardiac pain. The present study aimed to clarify the clinical characteristics of erosive esophagitis in children with non-cardiac chest pain. Ninety nine patients (mean age, 9.55 ± 2.95 years, 49 girls) with non-cardiac chest pain were enrolled. Patients were classified into two groups: erosive e...