Spontaneous pneumothorax after shoulder arthroscopy under general anesthesia: a case report by Chang Mook Lim, Seok Jin Lee, Hyo June Kim, Dong Ho Park, Chang Young Jeong, Hong Seuk Yang

“…Left-sided pneumothorax was found during routine postoperative radiography despite the absence of relevant symptoms or signs such as hypoxia, chest pain, or respiratory difficulty. We herein report this unusual case with a brief literature review.…”
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A Rare Thymoma Type Presenting as a Giant Intrathoracic Tumor: Lipofibroadenoma by Yener Aydin, Sare Sipal, Mine Celik, Omer Araz, Ali Bilal Ulas, Fatih Alper, Atila Eroglu

“…A twenty-three-year-old female patient was admitted to our clinic with complaints of chest pain and dyspnea for six months. Chest computed tomography showed solid and fatty components of masses 21×7 and 5×7 cm with clear borders in the right thoracic cavity. …”
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Severe anion gap metabolic acidosis associated with initiation of a very low-carbohydrate diet by Sijan Basnet, Niranjan Tachamo, Salik Nazir, Rashmi Dhital, Asad Jehangir, Anthony Donato

“…We present a case of a 31-year-old man with atypical symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath found to have severe metabolic acidosis after starting low carbohydrate diet for a week.…”
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Surgical treatment for coarctation of the aorta by Kosuke Niwa, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Daisuke Ueda, Keigo Yamashita

“…Abstract A 56‐year‐old man was admitted to the hospital due to chest pain. Computed tomography showed severe coarctation of the aorta distal to the left subclavian artery, with poststenotic dilatation of the descending aorta. …”
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Diagnosis and demonstration of single coronary artery by multidetector CT angiography: series of two cases by Neha Singh, Yashraj Gupta, Bhanupriya Singh, Gaurav Raj Agrawal, Subhash Rajput

“…Individuals with this anomaly mostly remain asymptomatic while some present with symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnoea and even sudden death. The origin and the proximal course of anomalous coronary artery are the main prognostic factors. …”
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The long-term effects of the Covid-19 infection on cardiac symptoms by Reza Golchin Vafa, Reza Heydarzadeh, Mohammadhossein Rahmani, Ali Tavan, Soroush Khoshnoud Mansorkhani, Bardia Zamiri, Farhang Amiri, Alireza Azadian, Amin Khademolhosseini, Mohammad Montaseri, Nazanin Hosseini, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Javad Kojuri

“…Data were collected regarding symptoms like dyspnea, chest pain, fatigue, and palpitations after a year of COVID-19. …”
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Demographic, clinical characteristics and medications of rehospitalized patients for acute coronary syndrome: boomerang study by Tugba Kemaloglu Oz, Tarik Kivrak, Abdallah Almaghraby, Mahmoud Abdelnabi, Onur Tasar, Begum Uygur, Emrah Aksakal, Gobinda Kanti Paul, Seyyad Farshad Sadri, Fatemeh Nikroo, Yagoub Musa, Batur Kanar, Hakki Kaya, Fady Gerges, Yusuf Cekici, Arash Hashemi, Bilal Cuglan, Lutfu Bekar, Irina Kotlar, Mustafa Yenercag, Mesut Gitmez, Aysel Akhundova, Sinan Inci, Mehtap Yeni, Mustafa Dogdus, Meltem Altinsoy, Ayman Helal, Shafa Shahbazova, Fatih Tamnik, Patrick W J Tiau, Ibrahim Ersoy, Fadime Bozdurman, Mehdi Zoghi

“…The majority of the rehospitalized patients were men (67.9%), and the mean age was 63.1 ± 12.53 years. 406 (64.6%) had typical, 209 (33.2%) of patients had atypical chest pain and 13 (2.07%) had not any chest pain complaint during readmission. 304 (48.41%) of patients were discharged from hospital earlier than 3 days and 107 (17.04%) of patients stayed more than 7 days. …”
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Safety of Pneumatic Dilation in Older Adults with Achalasia: An International Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study by Nir Bar, Christopher Vélez, Trisha S. Pasricha, Tamar Thurm, Dana Ben-Ami Shor, Roy Dekel, Yishai Ron, Kyle Staller, Braden Kuo

“…Advanced age was protective of benign chest pain complications in univariate analysis, and the limited number of AEs precluded multivariable analysis. …”
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Leveraging Regression Analysis to Predict Overlapping Symptoms of Cardiovascular Diseases by Sara Ghorashi, Khunsa Rehman, Anam Riaz, Hend Khalid Alkahtani, Ahmed H. Samak, Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda, Amna Parveen

“…In our proposed work, the combinations were Dyspnea, Chest Pain, Cyanosis, Weakness and Fatigue, Emptysis, and discomfort pressure in the chest have shown the ideal value of accuracy measured up to 90.6%, and with Fever, the accuracy is 91%. …”
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Patient factors associated with COVID‐19 loss of taste or smell patient factors in smell/taste loss COVID‐19 by B. Jake Johnson, Bradley Salonen, Thomas Jamie O'Byrne, Garret Choby, Ravindra Ganesh, Janalee K. Stokken, Erin K. O'Brien

“…Factors found to be correlated with reporting loss of smell or taste on multivariate analysis were: younger age, female sex, or symptoms of chest pain or tightness, cough, or headache and lower clinical risk category. …”
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Study of Methamphetamine Use in Patients Referred to Emergency Ward of a General Hospital at North of Iran in 2017 by Pezhman Hadinezhad, Mehran Zarghami, Hosein Montazer, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Fattaneh Ghaderi

“…The most common clinical symptoms in these patients were HTN, chest pain, palpitations, tachycardia, seizure, aggression, anxiety, delusions, and hallucinations…”
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Significance of Neutrophil Gelatinase- Associated Lipocalin and Pentraxin-3 in Acute Coronary Syndrome by Muhammet Raşit Özer, Mehmet Ergin, İbrahim Kılınç, Zerrin Defne Dündar, Nejla Özer, Mehmet Akif Önal, Abdullah Sadık Girişgin, Sedat Koçak, Mehmet Gül, Başar Cander

“…Patients who had chest pain and met the inclusion criteria were accepted. …”
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VALUE OF SPECIFIC PARAMETERS AND INTEGRATIVE INDICES OF TREADMILL TEST FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY STENOSIS SEVERITY by S. Yu. Martsevich, S. N. Tolpygina, A. M. Malysheva, Yu. N. Polyanskaya, E. A. Gofman, O. V. Lerman, V. P. Mazaev, A. D. Deev

“…The larger number of stenosis-affected CA was associated with a higher prevalence of chest pain and treadmill tests with positive results and ST segment depression >1 mm, as well as with a decreased total duration of treadmill test. …”
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Validity of TIMI Risk Score and HEART Score for Risk Assessment of Patients with Unstable Angina/Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Presented to an Emergency Department in Jord... by Ababneh MJ, Smadi MM, Al-Kasasbeh A, Jawarneh QA, Nofal M, El-Bashir M, Jarrah MI, Raffee LA

“…Muhannad J Ababneh,1 Mahmoud Mustafa Smadi,2 Abdullah Al-Kasasbeh,1 Qutaiba Ali Jawarneh,3 Mohammad Nofal,3 Mohanad El-Bashir,4 Mohamad Ismail Jarrah,1 Liqaa A Raffee5 1Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 3Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 4Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 5Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, JordanCorrespondence: Muhannad J Ababneh, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O.Box 3030, Irbid, 22110, Jordan, Tel +962799964654, Fax +962 2 7095010, Email mjababneh@just.edu.joPurpose: To examine the validity and predictability of thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) risk and HEART scores in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain in Jordan (representative of the Middle East and North Africa Region, MENA).Patients and Methods: Risk scores were calculated for 237 patients presenting to the ED with chest pain. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 on pulmonary, neurological, and cardiac outcomes: evidence from a Mendelian randomization study by Pooja U. Shenoy, Hrushikesh Udupa, Jyothika KS, Sangeetha Babu, Nikshita K, Neha Jain, Ranajit Das, Priyanka Upadhyai

“…However, our findings on Parkinson’s disease, depression, and chest pain were inconclusive.ConclusionOverall, these findings provide valuable insights into the genetic underpinnings of long COVID and its diverse range of symptoms. …”
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Physical exercise and Sport activities in patients with and without coronary heart disease by Giuseppe Francavilla, Maurizio Giuseppe Abrignani, Annabella Braschi, Rosalba Sciacca, Vincenzo Christian Francavilla, Marco Malvezzi Caracciolo, Nicola Renda, Carmine Riccio, Anna Scaglione, Giambattista Braschi

“…Methods: We studied 100 patients with chest pain, 78 men and 22 women, not older than 65 years, admitted to a coronary care unit. …”
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Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction Is Associated With Increased Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation by Michel T. Corban, Shigeo Godo, Daniel R. Burczak, Peter A. Noseworthy, Takumi Toya, Bradley R. Lewis, Lilach O. Lerman, Rajiv Gulati, Amir Lerman

“…We hypothesized that CED is associated with increased risk of incident AF among patients with chest pain and nonobstructive coronary artery disease. …”
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Prevalence, Symptoms, and Triggering Factors of Panic Attacks among Dental Students in Riyadh Saudi Arabia—A Cross Sectional Survey by Sanjeev B. Khanagar, Reema Jamal Altuwayjiri, Nadeen Mohammed Albarqy, Ghida Ahmed Alzahrani, Hibah Ali Alhusayni, Sarah Yousef Alsaif

“…Panic attacks are usually diagnosed by four or more of a set of symptoms that include palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, and hot flushes. They usually interfere with daily life situations and also interfere with education. …”
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Myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccinations: Twin and sibling case series by P. Shenton, D.R. Cheng, P. Simm, B. Jones, N.W. Crawford

“…Findings: Our case series comprises 6 young males; two sets of monozygotic twins and one set of fraternal brothers following reports of chest pain associated with COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. …”
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Myocarditis in a Pediatric Patient with <i>Campylobacter</i> Enteritis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Anastasios-Panagiotis Chantzaras, Spyridon Karageorgos, Panagiota Panagiotou, Elissavet Georgiadou, Theodora Chousou, Kalliopi Spyridopoulou, Georgios Paradeisis, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Evanthia Botsa

“…Concerning the nonspecific symptoms of patients with myocarditis, high clinical suspicion of this complication is necessary in cases where patients with a recent infection present with chest pain and elevated cardiac biomarkers.…”
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