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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.
The ACC/AHA Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines has commissioned this guideline to focus on the evaluation of acute or stable chest pain or other anginal equivalents, in various clinical settings, with an emphasis on the diagnosis on ischemic causes.
28 paź 2021 · This clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain provides recommendations and algorithms for clinicians to assess and diagnose chest pain in adult patients.
31 paź 2014 · NCCP is then defined by the chest pain characteristics or by the absence of ischaemia on functional non-invasive testing or the finding of normal or near-normal anatomy at coronary angiography. NCCP is therefore defined negatively and is not a unitary diagnosis.
30 lip 2024 · Most visits result in a diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain, and approximately half do not have a specific cause identified and thus are considered to have nonspecific chest pain [2-4]. Approximately 6 percent are ultimately diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, which is overwhelmingly (>90 percent) acute coronary syndrome.
12 kwi 2018 · 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 medical health care system (general practitioner, emergency department, chest pain unit, coronary care).
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 ...
