Chest pain is one of the commonest presenting symptom in any hospital both as an emergency or non emergency. Reaching an accurate diagnosis is very important. The main purpose of evaluation of chest pain is to recognise it as cardiac or non cardiac origin . Cardiac chest pain almost always means ischemic chest pain . That is called angina. [...]
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What do we mean by atypical chest pain ?
Posted in Cardiology - Clinical, Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs), tagged acs, angina, annals of internal medicine, approach to chest pain, atypical angina, atypical chest pain, bmj, cardiology, chest pain, chest wall tenderness, coronary, drsvenkatesan, ECG, emergency room, er, Heberdens, jama, lancet, myalgia, nejm, non cardaic chest pain, troponin, unstable angina on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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