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Noncardiac chest pain is often described as feeling like angina, the chest pain caused by heart disease. It feels like a painful squeezing or tightness in your chest, or like pressure or heaviness, particularly behind your sternum. You may feel it on the right side or the left side or in the middle.
8 lut 2024 · One of the more frequent causes of non-cardiac chest pain is a strained chest muscle. The article will explore some causes of musculoskeletal chest pain and how strained chest muscles are diagnosed and treated.
31 paź 2014 · Key messages. Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is common and patients with ‘atypical pain’ (table 1) and low cardiac risk do not usually need formal investigation. When tests are needed prepare the patient for a negative result which makes acceptance easier.
Arthritis chest pain has usually associated some exacerbation, such as minor trauma or upper respiratory infection, or it may be related to inflammation from the underlying arthritis condition. The pain is either dull or sharp but usually located towards the front of the chest wall.
9 mar 2023 · How does it feel? Potential causes. Consulting a doctor. Summary. Many health conditions can cause chest pain. Healthcare professionals may use the term nonanginal chest pain to refer to chest...
12 kwi 2018 · Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is recurrent angina pectoris-like pain without evidence of coronary heart disease in conventional diagnostic evaluation, such as coronary angiography and/or troponin assay .
The most common causes of noncardiac chest pain include musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, psychiatric and pulmonary conditions. Correct diagnosis is based on a detailed clinical and physical examination and diagnostic investigations as required.
