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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.
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.
Causes. The chest wall contains a range of bony and soft tissue structures, including the spine. It may be difficult, therefore, to pinpoint the exact source of pain in an individual patient.
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.
Noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) is very common in the general population; however, a patient's history and characteristics do not reliably distinguish between cardiac and esophageal causes of chest pain. 1, 2 When it comes to chest pain, the cardiologist's first priority is to exclude any acute life-threatening cardiovascular condition. 3 These ...
4 cze 2024 · Potentially life-threatening cardiac and pulmonary problems are usually the focus of the initial diagnostic evaluation for chest pain, although conditions affecting the musculoskeletal structures of the chest wall are among the most common causes of chest pain, particularly of discomfort that is often described as atypical or noncardiac chest pain.
9 mar 2023 · Nonanginal chest pain, which doctors may also call noncardiac chest pain, refers to pain a person without heart disease may feel behind the breast bone. The pain may feel similar to angina, but...
