Experts generally define atypical chest pain as any pain that does not have the same characteristics as typical chest pain. Typical chest pain presents as follows: A person will have chest discomfort ...

Assisted by the HEART score, emergency physicians appear to be able to safely discharge patients with chest pain after just one negative conventional troponin test result, a retrospective cohort study ...

About 5 million Americans annually seek emergency care for chest pain and suspected acute coronary syndromes. With this new, accelerated evaluation tool, hospital admissions may be reduced and fewer ...

The choice between two non-invasive diagnostic tests is a common dilemma in patients who present with chest pain. Yale cardiologist Rohan Khera, MD, MS, and colleagues have developed ASSIST, a new ...

Chest pain and heart attacks have become almost synonymous in most people's minds, but not all chest pain comes from the ...

Researchers identified 11 studies for the systematic review, 10 of which were included in the meta-analysis that assessed 3,052,540 pediatric patients (mean age, 10.1-13 years) who presented to the ED ...

Many health conditions can cause chest pain. Healthcare professionals may use the term nonanginal chest pain to refer to chest pain in people without heart disease. Chest pain accounts for more than 6 ...

The choice between two non-invasive diagnostic tests is a common dilemma in patients who present with chest pain. Yale cardiologist Rohan Khera, MD, MS, and colleagues have developed ASSIST ©, a new ...

A 62-year-old Hispanic woman with possibly cardiac chest pain and mild shortness of breath presents to a cardiologist as a new patient. She is noted to have recurring, fleeting, dull, and nonradiating ...