ALLMedicine™ Chest Pain Center

Feb 23rd, 2023 - Chest pain (CP) is the hallmark symptom for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) but is not reported in 20-30% of patients, especially women, elderly, non-white patients, presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an ST-segment elevation myocardial...

Feb 12th, 2023 - Non-Cardiac Chest Pain (NCCP) is persistent chest pain in the absence of identifiable cardiac pathology. Some NCCP cases meet criteria for Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS), where the symptoms are both persistent and distressing/disabling. This s...

Jan 29th, 2023 - The risk assessment of patients with stable chest pain (SCP) to defer further cardiovascular testing is crucial, but the most appropriate risk assessment strategy remains unknown. We aimed to compare current strategies to identify low risk SCP pat...

Jan 18th, 2023 - Background Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain (ACP) syndrome undergo additional testing to exclude acute coronary syndrome (ACS), pulmonary embolism (PE), or aortic dissection (AD), often yielding negative r...

Nov 15th, 2022 - Guideline and consensus documents have recently been published on the important topic of the noninvasive evaluation of patients presenting with chest pain (CP) or patients with known acute or chronic coronary syndromes. Authors for these documents...

Oct 18th, 2022 - Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) improves the quality of care for patients presenting with acute chest pain (ACP) to the emergency department (ED), particularly in patients with low to intermediate likelihood of acute coronary syndro...

Nov 6th, 2018 - Chronic chest pain (CCP) of a cardiac etiology is a common clinical problem. The diagnosis and classification of the case of chest pain has rapidly evolved providing the clinician with multiple cardiac imaging strategies. Though scintigraphy and r...

Oct 6th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large review of electronic health records by Boston-based researchers has revealed 33 phenotypes that are indicative of long COVID-19 among people who contracted the virus but did not need hospital care. Many of the p...

Jun 10th, 2021 - A substantial proportion of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are missed when presenting with non-anginal chest pain shows a 2-year study that followed local rather than National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines...

Sep 6th, 2019 - PARIS — An artificial intelligence decision support system (AI DSS) to help decide which diagnostic tests to perform in individuals with stable chest pain (SCP) could lead to substantial reductions in healthcare costs versus standard human-led car...

Jan 23rd, 2019 - Higher concentrations of high-sensitivity troponin I (hsTnI), even those within the normal range, are associated with a heightened near-term risk for death, acute myocardial infarction (MI), and hospitalization in symptomatic outpatients, new rese...

Mar 22nd, 2016 - ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Although takotsubo cardiomyopathy is often referred to as "broken heart syndrome" because of its occurrence in response to strongly negative emotions, such as grief or intense anger, new research suggests that positive emotio...