Chest Pain WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Chest Pain
One of the most common reasons people phone for medical help is chest pain. Emergency room doctors treat millions of people for chest pain each year. While chest pain should never go ingored, it is not always a signal that you are experiencing a heart attack or a cardiac event.1
Fast Facts:
- Chest pain should be evaluated by a physician right away. If you are experiencing severe pain, crushing, squeezing, or pressure that lasts more than a few minutes, contact 911 or local emergency responders immediately.2
- Examples of life-threatening causes of chest pain include: heart attack, angina, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, perforated viscus, cocaine-induced chest pain.3
- Examples of causes of chest pain that are not immediately life-threatening include the following: acute pericarditis, mitral valve prolapse, pneumonia, acid reflux, esophagitis, esophageal spasm, costochondritis.3
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Latest Headlines on Chest Pain
What Are The Symptoms of Chest Pain?
- Healthwise (via WebMD): Check Your Symptoms of Chest Pain
- eMedicineHealth: Chest Pain Symptoms
- My Heart Central: Chest Pain Symptoms
- Mayo Clinic: Signs and Symptoms of Chest Pain
- WrongDiagnosis: Chest Pain Symptoms
What Are the Causes and Complications of Chest Pain?
- Mayo Clinic: Causes of Chest Pain
- eMedicineHealth: Chest Pain Causes
- University of Florida: Women & Chest Pain Risk Complications
Chest Pain Diagnostics
- A.D.A.M. (via MedlinePlus): Cardiac Catheterization for Chest Pain
- CardiologyChannel: Chest Pain Diagnostics
- Siemens: Chest Pain Perspectives: The Earliest Marker-Myoglobin
- WrongDiagnosis: Diagnostic Tests for Chest Pain
- Mayo Clinic: Diagnosis
What Are The Treatments and Medications for Chest Pain?
- Healthwise (via WebMD): Chest Pain Treaments
- eMedicineHealth: Chest Pain Treatments
- MedicineNet: Treatment Options for Chest Pain
- Mayo Clinic: Treatment for Chest Pain
What Are The Holistic and Alternative Treatments for Chest Pain?
- EarthClinic: Cure Chest Pain (Unstable Agina) with Natural Remedies
- Statesman: Hawthorne for Chest Pain
- Alive: Supplements and Herbs For A Healthy Heart
How Do You Prevent Chest Pain?
- eMedicineHealth: Prevention of Chest Pain
- Mayo Clinic: Stents, Drugs, Lifestyle Changes — What's Best?
- A.DA.M. (via MedlinePlus): Chest Pain Prevention
- YourTotalHealth: Chest Pain Prevention
Foundations and Support Groups on Chest Pain
- Society of Chest Pain Centers: Chest Pain Society
- British Heart Foundation: 2 Minutes May Save Your Life
- Medical University of South Carolina: Chest Pain Support Groups
Wisdom, Message Boards, and Blogs about Chest Pain
- HealthBoards: Acid Reflux | Heart Disorders
- iVillage: Heart Health: Recurring Chest Pain
- ManageYourHeartburn: Heartburn and Chest Pain
- Topix: Chest Pain Forum
- CardiologyChannel: Chest Pain Forum
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Chest Pain
- American Heart Association: Chest Pain
- PubMed Central: Chest Pain
- New England Journal of Medicine: Prognostic Value of Myeloperoxidase in Patients with Chest Pain | Evaluation of the Patient with Acute Chest Pain
- Google Scholar: Chest Pain
- JAMA: Chest Pain
Clinical Trials on Chest Pain
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Chest Pain
- CenterWatch: Chest Pain Clinical Trials
Research Notes References
- ↑ Mayo Clinic: Chest Pain
- ↑ eMedicineHealth: Chest Pain
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 eMedicineHealth: Chest Pain Causes
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- Contributor: Amy Sandhu
- Reviewer: Scott Pearlman, M.D.
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Amy Sandhu
- Reviewer: Scott Pearlman, M.D.
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Pain in the Chest, Heart pain, Chest pains
- Last update: Jul. 31, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
