Contemporary Risk Stratification of Acute Coronary Syndrome by Gurleen Kaur, Swati Chand, Devesh Rai, Bipul Baibhav, Ron Blankstein, Debabrata Mukherjee, Phillip Levy, Martha Gulati

“…The 2021 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain represent the first ever guidelines for the evaluation of patients with acute chest pain. …”
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Heartburn’s Hidden Impact: A Narrative Review Exploring Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) as a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor by Jacob J. Gries, Bing Chen, Salim S. Virani, Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk, Hani Jneid, Chayakrit Krittanawong

“…Although traditionally considered a causative agent of noncardiac chest pain, a common imitator of cardiac chest pain, or an incidentally shared comorbidity in patients with CVD, a number of studies have implicated GERD and its therapies as risk factors for CVD. …”
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A Rare Case of Severe Aortic Regurgitation with Silent Ascending Aortic Dissection by Harsh Seth, Prashant Mishra, Jayant Khandekar, Chaitanya Raut, Vaibhav Shah, Vijay Shewale

“…Classically, ascending aortic dissection (AD) presents as sudden, severe chest pain that is tearing type and radiates to the back. …”
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Syphilitic aortitis as a rare cause of coronary ostial stenosis by Rui Flores, Fernando Mané, Carlos Braga, Cátia Oliveira

“…During hospitalization, he complained of chest pain. The ECG showed signs of sinus rhythm with sustained diffuse ST-segment depression and ST-segment elevation in aVR and V1. …”
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Management of anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction presenting more than 48 hours from symptom onset without reperfusion therapy in the cardiac care unit by Iswandi Darwis, Anggoro Budi Hartapo, Muhammad Gahan Sarwiko

“…Conservative management and viability testing are the main options for patient management in STEMI with symptom onset of more than 48 hours without any complaints of chest pain, stable hemodynamics, and no life-threatening arrhythmia.…”
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Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Helped to Rapidly Detect Pneumomediastinum in a Vomiting Female by Yun-Hao Chen, Po-Chen Lin, Yu-Long Chen, Giou-Teng Yiang, Meng-Yu Wu

“…Patients diagnosed with Boerhaave syndrome may present with the classic Mackler triad of vomiting, chest pain, and subcutaneous emphysema. However, there exists a large overlap of symptoms accompanying Boerhaave syndrome and the Macklin effect, including retrosternal chest pain, neck discomfort, cough, sore throat, dysphagia, dysphonia, and dyspnea. …”
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Ovarian Carcinoma Presenting as Meigs’ Syndrome- A Rare Case Report by Francis Ankita, K Sahana, Sabarinath Ravichandar, G Jishna

“…A large proportion of patients present with shortness of breath, dry cough and pricking type of pleuritic chest pain as a result of pleural involvement. However, fever and constitutional symptoms like loss of appetite and loss of weight is most likely associated with tuberculosis. …”
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Evaluation of albumin –cobalt binding as a specific test for assessment of myocardial infarction. by Mohammed Fawzi Al-Ghamber, Khalil Bekri A. Razzak, Ghassan A. Al-Shamma

“…Subjects and methods: Forty five patients presented to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain and 31 healthy controls were involved in the study. …”
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Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 58-Year-Old Female with Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Right Sinus of Valsalva by Josip Vincelj, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Kristina Milevoj Križić, Ante Lisičić

“…After PCI, she had no chest pain. At 5-year clinical follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic.…”
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Coronary vasospasm as an etiology of recurrent ventricular fibrillation in the absence of coronary artery disease: a case report by Binita Bhandari, Tejaswi Kanderi, Keerthi Yarlagadda, Mehreen Qureshi, Saketram Komanduri

“…It typically presents with chest pain, which can be accompanied by transient electrocardiographic changes, if visualized during the attack. …”
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Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction: PET, CMR and CT Assessment by Elisabetta Tonet, Graziella Pompei, Evelina Faragasso, Alberto Cossu, Rita Pavasini, Giulia Passarini, Matteo Tebaldi, Gianluca Campo

“…Microvascular dysfunction is responsible for chest pain in various kinds of patients, including those with obstructive coronary artery disease and persistent symptoms despite revascularization, or those with myocardial disease without coronary stenosis. …”
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Unusual presentation and delayed diagnosis of cardiac angiosarcoma by Salman Zaheer, Alice L. Zhou, John M. Gross, Ahmet Kilic

“…Six weeks later, the patient represented with chest pain and new word finding difficulty. Workup revealed multiple solid lung, pericardial, brain, and bone nodules. …”
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A Rare Case of Thymic Rosai-Dorfman Disease Mimicking Malignancy on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT by Tongtong Jia, Bin Zhang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Xin Xu, Shibiao Sang, Shengming Deng

“…A 23-year-old man with right-sided chest pain underwent ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT scan, showing increased ¹⁸F-FDG uptake in an anterior mediastinal mass corresponding to a thymic lesion at an enhanced CT scan. …”
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Correlation Between Aortic Valve Sclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease: A Cross - Sectional Study by Afsoon Fazlinezhad, Leila Hosseini, Hadis Yousefzadeh, Saied Akhlaghi

“…Conclusions: Aortic valve sclerosis was an independent predictor for obstructive coronary artery disease in patients with chest pain and was strongly interrelated with the extent of coronary artery disease in these patients.…”
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Tumor Mediastinum Anterior (Yolk Sac Tumor) pada Seorang Laki-Laki Dewasa Muda: Sebuah Kasus yang Jarang [Yolk Sac Tumor in a Young Man: A Rare Case] by Risnawati Risnawati, Laksmi Wulandari

“…The most common symptoms on ptesentation were dyspnea, chest pain, cought, fever, night sweat, or weight loss. …”
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A cross-sectional study for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism in unexplained dyspnea in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Anshika Jindal, Yogendra Singh Rathore, Vinod Joshi, Shubhra Jain, Narendra Khippal

“…Results: In our study, the prevalence of PE in unexplained AE-COPD was 18%. Clinically, chest pain and hemoptysis were present in 80% and 12% of the patients with PE, compared with 49% and 5% of the patients without PE, respectively. …”
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Does serratiopeptidase prevent thoracic surgery in patients of hydropneumothorax of tubercular aetiology? by Amitabh D Shukla, Vaidehi Agarwal

“…Out of 28 patients recruited, 19 suffering severe chest pain received serratiopeptidase containing analgesic tablets and nine patients of the control group not having severe chest pain received non-serratiopeptidase containing analgesic tablets. …”
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Pulmonary Embolism Associated with Pandemic H1N1 Influenza A Virus Infection: a Case Report by Ahmet Cumhur Dülger, Serhat Avcu, Harun Arslan, Bülent Özbay, Hülya Günbatar, Mehmet Emin Küçükoğlu, Mehmet Kadir Bartın

“…A 42-year-old Turkish woman was admitted to our emergency department with dyspnea and pleuritic chest pain. She complained of fever, myalgia, sore throat and cough of four days duration on admission to our hospital. …”
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Case report: Unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysms causing postural angina pectoris and false “pulmonary hypertension” by Chi Zhou, Jingwen Tao, Sheng Li

“…A 37-year-old woman presented with worsening intermittent chest pain and dyspnea in the previous year. Although the dyspnea was exertion-dependent, her chest pain was heavily dependent on her postural position, worsening in the supine position but alleviated by lying prone or by sitting up and leaning forward. …”
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Validity of Computer-interpreted “Normal” and “Otherwise Normal” ECG in Emergency Department Triage Patients by Ashley Deutsch, Kye Poroksy, Lauren Westafer, Paul Visintainer, Timothy Mader

“…Introduction: Chest pain is the second most common chief complaint for patients undergoing evaluation in emergency departments (ED) in the United States. …”
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