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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with chest pain, there is no single imaging test that will provide the perfect diagnosis for all, ...

A 45-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with complaints of chest pain, heart palpitations that developed ...

The six steps make up the Erlanger Chest Pain Protocol, which the study finds is accurate enough for emergency physicians to use for high- and low-risk patients. This prospective one-year study ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some cases, a pinched nerve in the upper back can cause chest pain. However, upper back pinched nerves are less common than those that occur in the neck or lower back. Pinched nerves can cause pain ...

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 ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory condition that affects the spine, causing back pain and stiffness. But one-third of people with this condition have inflammation that affects other parts ...