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Alternative Treatments For Chest Pain - Articles
Heart Attack, Chest Pain and Heart Disease
by
Dave W
Posted
Fri 18 Dec 2009 3:29am
Diagnosing the type of pain and usual symptoms
Chest pain can be very worrying as the immediate natural concern is that it might be warning signs of an imminent heart... diagnosis of coronary artery disease at the outset and exclude non-cardiac chest pain, since there may be serious consequences with a missed diagnosis. Also it’s vital to understand
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Does chest pain mean I have a heart problem?
by
Dave W
Posted
Mon 18 Jan 2010 5:36am
Prof Lahiri’s article – Chest Pain – Cardiac or not? gets straight to the point. Are these chest pains as a result of something wrong with my heart, or worse still, do I have silent disease? There is really only one method to accurately diagnosed heart problems and that is by Dual Source Cardiac CT Scanning. Prof Lahiri explains the modern
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Chiropractic For Chest Pain?
by
Dr. Gray
Posted
Fri 23 Oct 2009 10:04pm
with the treatment of many conditions other than lower back pain. Remember to think for yourself, and do your own research. There are often tons of information and alternatives that are less... be beneficial for many conditions not regularly associated to it.
For instance: Chest pain, known medically as angina, affects over 6 million Americans every year. These frightening
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Chest Pain
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Dr. Anshu Gupta
Posted
Tue 02 Jun 2009 4:40pm
Some gastrointestinal disorders may present as atypical chest pain. This is chest pain not related to the heart. This usually is associated with gastroesophageal reflux (reflux of stomach acids) and esophageal spasm. In addition, chest pain can be caused when food or liquid gets stuck in the esophagus. Food may get stuck for many
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Unexplained chest pain can be due to stress
by
Niell A.
Posted
Wed 18 Feb 2009 12:06pm
Posted by Neill Abayon
Each year, many people seek emergency treatment for unexplained chest pains. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg... to seek emergency treatment. A considerable number of patients are diagnosed with unexplained chest pain, which means that the pain cannot be linked to biomedical factors
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The Cure for Chest Pain
by
Vanessa R.
Posted
Sat 27 Mar 2010 3:15pm
What do you do with a friend who’s having chest pain, whether physically or emotionally? Why bake them a giant anatomical heart cookie of course! That’s exactly what Kate deRosset did for a friend with chest pain as “comfort food” and it’s such a thoughtful idea.
Sweet heart!
[submitted by Mikaela Chase]
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Women with Chest Pain Not Treated the Same as Men by EMS
by
Heartstrong
Posted
Fri 05 Jun 2009 4:17pm
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Medicine conference (May 2009) found that even women with chest pain do not receive the same treatment as men from ambulance personnel. Over 680 patients with chest pain transported... providers where they presented with chest pain. These are standard life saving procedures for any patient with chest pain/heart attack. In fact, none of the women with a heart attack
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Origin and location of chest pain in acute pulmonary embolism
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
Posted
Wed 21 Oct 2009 10:02pm
Pulmonary embolism is one of the important causes of acute chest pain . It can mimic acute coronary syndrome . In fact along with aortic dissection , it forms a differential diagnosis for STEMI especailly if the ECG is not typical.
The Chest pain of acute pulmonary embolism can originate in one of the following structures with different
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66 year old male CC: Chest pain
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Adam THOMPSON
Posted
Sat 29 May 2010 10:09am
pain
48 year old male CC: Chest discomfort, shortness of breath
Pure (Isolated) Posterior STEMI -- not so rare, but often ignored! - Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
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Here's another great case submitted by Nick Ciaravella of Grady EMS in Atlanta, GA.
66 year old male presents to EMS with chest pain.
S - Chest Pain
A - None
M - Atenolol
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