Chest pain in children.

American Family Physician;  January 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Chest pain, although not as common as abdominal pain...annually by physicians for evaluation of chest pain. [1] In one study, [2] the prevalence...emergency department or walk-in clinic. Chest pain is reported to be the seventh most common...

Adolescent chest pain.

American Family Physician;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Chest pain is a frequent presenting symptom of teenagers...accounting for 650,000 visits annually.[1] Chest pain creates anxiety in young patients, their...past decade to determine the cause of chest pain in adolescents have yielded different...

The challenge of evaluating the patient with chest pain

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......estimated that patients with complaints of chest pain comprise close to 6 million emergency...evaluation of the patient with acute chest pain is a resource-intensive and expensive...unstable angina pectoris. However, most chest pain patients do not have an ACS,2 and most...

Follow-up Survey of Children and Adolescents With Chest Pain.

Southern Medical Journal;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......study were to identify the outcome of chest pain in children and to identify the incidence of recurrent chest pain and the need for further medical services...evaluated in the cardiology clinic for chest pain. Results. In the majority of patients...

Psychological interventions for noncardiac chest pain.(Cochrane for...

American Family Physician;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......department visit for continued intermittent chest pain. He has no cardiac risk factors and...suspect a noncardiac cause for his chest pain. Clinical Question What is the best way to treat noncardiac chest pain? Evidence-Based Answer Noncardiac...

Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patients with Chest Pain without a Cardiac...

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......expressions of social problems and distress; chest pain is one of the most widely seen, medically...physical symptoms. Most of the time, chest pain cases in which an organic etiology cannot...psychiatric comorbidity rate in patients with chest pain without a cardiac etiology. Method: ...

Diagnosing the cause of chest pain.

American Family Physician;  November 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Chest pain presents a diagnostic challenge in outpatient...and an electrocardiogram. Patients with chest pain that is predictably exertional, with electrocardiogram...radiograph. Although some patients with chest pain have heart failure, this is unlikely in...

Cardiac, pulmonary disease seldom explain chest pain in ED.(Clinical...

Pediatric News;  September 1, 2007 ;     555 words ......presenting to the emergency department with chest pain had pulmonary disease, and 1.2% had cardiac...more likely to complain of pleuritic chest pain, report fever, and have an abnormal pulmonary...present to the ED with a chief complaint of chest pain, with no pleuritic pain or fever ...

chest pain

The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      249 words ......Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 chest pain, a physical complaint that may be symptomatic...of disease of the lungs. The source of chest pain may also be musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal...psychological. More than 90% of severe chest pain is caused by coronary heart disease...

Panic disorder in a child with recurrent chest pain

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Panic disorder in a child with recurrent chest pain. Turk J Pediatr 2007; 49: 105-108. A...Pediatric Cardiology Unit with complaints of chest pain and dizziness. Physical examination did...same complaint. Organic etiologies of chest pain were excluded by extensive diagnostic...

Society of Chest Pain Centers Announces Robert Stomel, DO as New...

PR Newswire;  July 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) has chosen Robert Stomel...this position to continue to improve Chest Pain Centers in hospitals across the United...American College of Osteopathic Internists. Chest Pain Center accreditation is an important...

Botsford General Hospital Center Receives Chest Pain Center Accreditation.

PR Newswire;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Accredited Chest Pain Center to Botsford General Hospital...46th in the nation to be accredited. Chest Pain Center accreditation is an important...

Active CAD and chest pain relief with nitroglycerin.(POEMs &...

American Family Physician;  July 1, 2004 ;     452 words ...Chest pain is a common reason for hospital admission. In most patients with chest pain, acute coronary artery disease (CAD) is the major...often are used in emergency treatment of acute chest pain, but relief with nitrates is an uncertain diagnostic...

Esophageal chest pain.

American Family Physician;  September 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Esophageal Chest Pain SAM R. FULP, M.D., North Carolina Baptist...Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recurrent chest pain frequently results in significant disability...gastrointestinal tract that can produce chest pain. If a search for these disorders proves...

Taking pains with cardiac care. (emergency chest pain centers)

Crain's Cleveland Business;  December 14, 1992 ;     700+ words ......centers to battle heart attacks Emergency chest pain centers are spreading like wild fire...the Meridia Health System have opened chest pain centers. Parma Community General and...operations in place but haven't dubbed them chest pain centers per se. The centers, in the hospitals...