acute chest pain
Acute chest pain fast track at the emergency department: who was misdiagnosed for acute coronary syndrome?
... with acute chest pain to the ...from chest pain related to trauma, patients who had been previously diagnosed/treated as ACS and referred from other hospitals, patients who were ...
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Chest CT examinations in patients presenting with acute chest pain: a pictorial review
... Acute chest pain is one of the most common presenting symptoms at the emergency department (ED), up to 10 % of all ED admissions in the United States ...as acute coronary artery syndrome (ACS, ...
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Acute Chest Pain in a 70-Year-Old Woman at CNHU-HKM Cotonou: Morbid Association or Diagnostic Wandering
... Philippe Mahouna Adjagba, Murielle Hounkponou, Arnaud Sonou, Kouessi Anthelme Agbodandé, Salimatou Assani Moutaïrou, Rosaire Bognon, Ikram Akinocho, Yessoufou Tchabi, Martin Dèdonougbo Houénassi. Acute ...
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The conundrum of acute chest pain in general practice: a nationwide survey in The Netherlands
... with chest pain and, as such, there is a need to come to terms with what ratio GPs are willing to accept when it comes to the number of referred patients versus the risk of missing ...to acute ...
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Acute chest pain - A prospective population based study of contacts to Norwegian emergency medical communication centres
... A substantial number of the patients were not in a life threatening medical situation. This sheds light on the challenges for the EMCCs in deciding the appropriate level of response in patients with acute ...
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MDCT Triple rule out angiography in the evaluation of acute Chest pain
... with acute chest ...with acute chest pain and an intermediate risk for ACS, while at the same time identifies those with significant coronary artery stenosis and non- coronary ...
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What decides the suspicion of acute coronary syndrome in acute chest pain patients?
... The present results indicate that the ED physician uses the symptoms as the most important diagnostic tool when deciding the level of suspicion of ACS in chest pain patients, and that the ECG is considered ...
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Pretreatment with beta-blockers and the frequency of hypokalemia in patients with acute chest pain
... Downloaded from heart.bmj.com on May 11, 2010 - Published by group.bmj.com Br Heart J 1987;58:499-504 Pre-treatment with blockers and the frequency of hypokalaemia in patients with acute[r] ...
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Diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal chest pain: design of a multi purpose trial
... Chiropractic therapy may be an effective treatment for patients with acute chest pain, but this has only been investigated in one non-randomized trial [27]. A prag- matic approach was chosen for the ...
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A randomised controlled trial to measure the effect of chest pain unit care upon anxiety, depression, and health-related quality of life [ISRCTN85078221]
... with acute chest pain were screened for eligibility in the ...an acute coronary syndrome, clinically obvious unstable angina, co-morbidity or alternative pathology requiring hospital admission ...
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Cardiovascular disease: The effect of erectile dysfunction on adherence to cardiovascular disease medication
... Erectile dysfunction prevalence, time of onset and association with risk factors in 300 consecutive patients with acute chest pain and angiographically documented coronary artery disease[r] ...
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Epidemiology and Serum Metabolic Characteristics of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in Chest Pain Centers
... with acute chest pain symptoms presenting to the Emergency Rooms (ER) in The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Au- tonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China from January 2015 to July ...
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Computed tomography coronary angiography in patients without known coronary artery disease can demonstrate possible non-cardiovascular causes of non-acute retrosternal chest pain
... retrosternal chest pain, were prospectively included. Patients with acute chest pain, directly re- ferred to the Emergency Department, were excluded, as well as patients with known ...
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Chest pain and exacerbations of bronchiectasis
... the pain to food and swallowing; any radiation of pain; and tenderness to palpation over the chest ...the chest wall was also performed to assess for the presence of musculoskeletal ...
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Stress cardiomyopathy: clinical features and outcomes
... The previous discussion shows that the origin and fa- cilitating triggering factors of SCM are still under debate. Since SCM description and better identification are re- cent, it is still not clear which is the ideal ...
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Incidence of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with acute myocardial infarction during the first 48 hours of the onset of chest pain
... Results: Maximum number of patients was in the age group 51-60 years in both males (37.97%) and females (65.22%). Acute MI observed mostly in the postmenopausal age in all the females. Incidence of myocardial ...
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Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a chest pain observation unit compared with routine care
... A sample size of 988 was required to detect a difference of 7.5% in the proportion admitted ( = 0.05, = 0.80). We did not adjust this estimate for clustering because the small cluster size and large number of clusters ...
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The relationship between epicardial adipose tissue and coronary artery stenosis by sex and menopausal status in patients with suspected angina
... for chest pain with suspected ...Women’s Chest Pain Multi- center Registry data (KoROSE), which is a nation-wide multicenter registry, which is participating in 20 tertiary hospitals in ...
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Acute Myocarditis Simulating Myocardial Infarction in a Child
... However, this case portrays the dra- matic electrocardiographic appearance of acute myocardial ischemia in a boy with biopsy-proven myocarditis who had only mild chest pain. This undersc[r] ...
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Vol 27 (2014)
... A chest-CT was performed and displayed a thrombus in the right jugular vein and a large mass involving the right supraclavicular fossa and the ipsilateral lung apex, which extended to the upper mediastinum, ...
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