Noncardiac chest pain is defined as recurrent chest pain that is indistinguishable from ischemic heart pain after a reasonable workup has excluded a cardiac cause. Noncardiac chest pain is a prevalent disorder resulting in high healthcare utilization and significant work absenteeism. However, despite its chronic nature, noncardiac chest pain has no impact on patients' mortality. The main underl...

aortic dissection occurs when a tear develops in the wall of the aorta, which is rare in the young population. this fatal disorder is hard to diagnose, especially in young patients. we present the case of aortic dissection in a 15-year-old boy referred to the emergency department of yazd university of medical sciences in november 2015. the patient presented to our department with sudden acute c...

BACKGROUND Whether the higher coronary mortality in South Asians compared with White populations is due to a higher incidence of disease is not known. This study assessed cumulative incidence of chest pain in South Asians and Whites, and prognosis of chest pain. METHODS Over seven phases of 18-year follow-up of the Whitehall-II study (9,775 civil servants: 9,195 White, 580 South Asian), chest...

Hydropneumothorax denotes concurrent presence of pneumothorax and hydrothorax in the pleural space, which can be a fatal situation. In this study, we presented the case of a 35-year-old male with history of progressive pleuritic chest pain 30 days before admission with idiopathic hydropneumothorax and spontaneous pneumomediastinum

BACKGROUND Chest pain is a common complaint and reason for consultation in primary care. Traditional textbooks still assign pain localization a certain discriminative role in the differential diagnosis of chest pain. The aim of our study was to synthesize pain drawings from a large sample of chest pain patients and to examine whether pain localizations differ for different underlying etiologies...

Acute chest pain is a common presentation in emergency. After clinical assessment undiagnosed chest pain can become a difficult problem. Sympathetically mediated chest pain is a rare presentation, as it is similar to that of secondary hyperalgesia in the intact skin surrounding an injury site. We are reporting a case of a 62 years old man who presented with atypical chest pain four months after...