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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.
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 .
31 paź 2014 · 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.
28 paź 2021 · The AHA/ACC guidelines for NSTE-ACS and heart failure all recommend chest radiographs on presentation, although this should not delay urgent revascularization if it is indicated. 2,3 In patients with acute chest pain and heart failure, chest radiographs are useful to assess heart size and pulmonary congestion, as well as identifying potential ...
Chest pain is a common reason for patients to attend cardiac clinics, but the cause of pain in more than 50% of these patients is non-cardiac.1 In a recent study of 660 consecutive referrals to a “one stop” clinic, only 27% had a cardiac cause for their symptoms.2 Another group, which is particularly difficult to manage, is that with a ...
Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is recurrent angina pectoris-like pain without evidence of coronary heart disease in conventional diagnostic evaluation. The prevalence of NCCP is up to 70% and may be detected (in this order) at all levels of the ...
Background: Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is recurrent angina pectoris-like pain without evidence of coronary heart disease in conventional diagnostic evaluation.
