Symptoms of Chest pain

List of symptoms of Chest pain:

The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Chest pain includes the 4 symptoms listed below:

• Chest pain
• Pressure in the chest area
• Chest discomfort
• See also symptoms of heart attack and symptoms of angina

Note that Chest pain symptoms usually refers to various symptoms known to a patient, but the phrase Chest pain signs may refer to those signs only noticable by a doctor.

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Chest pain?

The list of other diseases or medical conditions that may be on the differential diagnosis list of alternative diagnoses for Chest pain includes:

• Myocardial ischaemia
• Pericarditis
• Aortic dissection
• Pulmonary embolism
• Tension pneumothorax

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Other Possible Causes of these Symptoms

Click on any of the symptoms below to see a full list of other causes including diseases, medical conditions, toxins, drug interactions, or drug side effect causes of that symptom.

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Medical Books Online about Chest pain

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Symptoms of Chest pain: Online Medical Books

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Myocardial infarction: Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Crushing substernal pain radiating to left arm, shoulder blades, and neck; feeling of impending doom; nausea; shortness of breath; sweating; ST-segment changes on electrocardiogram; elevated serum CK-MB and troponin-I levels

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Myocardial infarction: Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)

The cardinal symptom of an MI is persistent, crushing substernal pain that may radiate to the left arm, jaw, neck, or shoulder blades. Such pain is typically described as heavy, squeezing, or crushing and may persist for 12 hours or more. However, in some MI patients — particularly older adults or diabetics — pain may not occur at all; in others, it may be mild and confused with indigestion.

In patients with coronary artery disease, angina of increasing frequency, severity, or duration (especially if not provoked by exertion, a heavy meal, or cold and wind) may signal impending infarction.

Other features

Other signs and symptoms include a feeling of impending doom, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and shortness of breath. Some patients may have no symptoms. The patient may experience catecholamine responses, such as coolness in the extremities, perspiration, anxiety, and restlessness. Fever is unusual at the onset of an MI, but a low-grade fever may develop during the next few days. Blood pressure varies; hypotension or hypertension may be present.

Complications

The most common post-MI complications include recurrent or persistent chest pain, arrhythmias, left ventricular failure (resulting in heart failure or acute pulmonary edema), and cardiogenic shock. Unusual but potentially lethal complications that may develop soon after infarction include thromboembolism; papillary muscle dysfunction or rupture, causing mitral insufficiency; rupture of the ventricular septum, causing ventricular septal defect; rupture of the myocardium; and ventricular aneurysm.

Up to several months after infarction, Dressler’s syndrome may develop (pericarditis, pericardial friction rub, chest pain, fever, leukocytosis and, possibly, pleurisy or pneumonitis). (See Complications of myocardial infarction.)

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Chest pain as a symptom:

For a more detailed analysis of Chest pain as a symptom, including causes, drug side effect causes, and drug interaction causes, please see our Symptom Center information for Chest pain.

Medical articles and books on symptoms:

These general reference articles may be of interest in relation to medical signs and symptoms of disease in general:

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About signs and symptoms of Chest pain:

The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Chest pain. This signs and symptoms information for Chest pain has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of Chest pain signs or Chest pain symptoms. Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Chest pain may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they are indeed Chest pain symptoms.