Search results
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.
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.
Differential Diagnosis of Noncardiac Chest Pain Accompanying Symptoms. Chest pain is the dominant and most frequent symptom for both men and women ultimately diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome. Women may be more likely to present with accompanying symptoms such as nausea and shortness of breath. a. Section 2.1.1.
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.
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 .
8 lis 2013 · Non-cardiovascular chest pain (NCCP) has a high healthcare cost, but insufficient guidelines exist for its diagnostic investigation. The objective of the present work was to identify important diagnostic indicators and their accuracy for specific and non-specific conditions underlying NCCP.
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 ...
