Spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a healthy young female: A case report and literature review by Ahmed Dirweesh, Chikezie Alvarez, Muhammad Khan, Donald Christmas

“…Individuals can have varying presentations, from chest pain, dyspnea and dysphagia, to anxiety, weakness, or facial and neck swelling. …”
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Anesthetic Considerations in a Case of Peumatocele Following Chest Trauma: A Case Report by Jyoti Deshpande, Merlin Elizabeth Jacob

“…The bullous area is void of bronchoalveolar oxygenation and that certainly could result in dyspnea, hypoxia, symptomatic chest pain or even hemoptysis. This can result in spontaneous pneumothorax, pneumothorax provoked by mechanical ventilation or infection. …”
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Sinus surgery complicated by ventricular fibrillation in a young patient: Inverted (reverse) Takotsubo cardiomyopathy by Gültekin Günhan Demir, Gamze Babur Güler, Ekrem Güler, Hacı Murat Güneş, Filiz Kızılırmak

“…The most common presentation is acute substernal chest pain, although occasionally dyspnea and syncope, and rarely shock with ST-segment elevation and elevated cardiac biomarkers have been observed. …”
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Pleuropulmonary aspergillosis presenting as hydropneumothorax in second trimester pregnancy by Selvi Chinnasamy, L Sundararajan, Charumathi Radhakrishnan, P Senthur Nambi

“…A 29-year-old pregnant woman with 16 weeks of gestation presented with shortness of breath, right-sided chest pain, and productive cough of 2 weeks' duration. …”
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Successful Use of Pembrolizumab to Treat Refractory Thymic Carcinoma with High PD-L1 Expression by Takuma Isshiki, Kazutoshi Isobe, Naobumi Tochigi, Motoko Sunakawa, Yasuhiko Nakamura, Kazutoshi Shibuya, Susumu Sakamoto, Yujiro Takai, Sakae Homma

“…A 68-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of chest pain. Chest computed tomography showed a mass in the anterior mediastinum and lymphadenopathy in the left cervical lymph node. …”
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Coronary artery fistula: key clinical and therapeutic management aspects. A comprehensive literature review by Łukasz Turek, Szymon Domagała, Marcin Sadowski, Marianna Janion

“…Although uncommon, CAF is an important consideration in the differential diagnosis of common pulmonary and cardiac issues, such as dyspnoea or chest pain. While small fistulae are often asymptomatic and require no treatment, symptoms and complications, such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, or arrhythmias, especially in cases of significant fistula size, may necessitate percutaneous or surgical closure. …”
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Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Presenting as Electrical Storm: A Case Report by Nathan Escorial, Coleman Cowart, Matthew Paparian, Joel Stillings

“…Case Report: A healthy 38-year-old-male developed chest pain while exercising at the gym and presented to the emergency department unresponsive in a ventricular arrhythmia defined as ES. …”
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Splenic artery pseudoaneurysm rupture in pseudocyst of pancreas successfully managed with coiling: A rare case report by Nitish Batra, Neha Phate, Raj Jaydeep Soni, Sunil Kumar, Sourya Acharya, Pankaj Banode

“…Such patients are usually asymptomatic, but 20% of them present with complaints such as abdominal pain and chest pain and most are usually diagnosed incidentally. …”
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Bone Marrow Edema and Pseudocyst as a Very Rare Complication of Familial Mediterranean Fever: A Case Report by Abuzer Coskun, Sevki Hakan Eren, Mehmet Eren, Sedat Ozbay

“…The first attack frequency that starts with pleuritic chest pain, pleural effusion and fever are lower than 10%. …”
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Interpreting high sensitivity troponins in various acute clinical settings – Increased significance to the present-day cardiologist by Raghuram Palaparti, Gopala Krishna Koduru, Sarada Srinivas Chowdary Parvathaneni

“…High-sensitivity cardiac troponins expedite the evaluation of patients with chest pain in the emergency department. The utility of troponins extends beyond the acute coronary syndromes to accurate the diagnosis of myocardial injury. …”
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Bonzai Unusual Effects: A Case Report by Halise Akça, Nilden Tuygun, Can Demir Karacan

“…In addition to physical effects, such as nausea, vomiting, sweating, tachycardia, hypertension, chest pain and altered consciousness, psychoactive effects, such as agitation, anxiety, altered perception, hallucinations and panic attacks, are also seen. …”
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A rare pneumonia in an immunocompetent adolescent – Pulmonary nocardiosis by Madhu Sudan Barthwal, Ayesha Chaturvedi, Tushar Sahastrabuddhe, Shailesh B Meshram

“…Our patient, a 13-year-old male, reported to the out-patient department with chief complaints of right-sided pleuritic chest pain, cough, fever, shortness of breath, and cervical lymphadenopathy for 2 months. …”
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Post-cardiac injury syndrome following permanent pacemaker implantation presenting exclusively as massive pleural effusion —A rare occurrence by Nasiha Khalid, Ikram Ahmed Rana

“…She developed dyspnoea, pleuritic chest pain, and lethargy. She successfully responded to treatment with NSAIDs and colchicine with no recurrence. …”
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Coronary Artery Spasm: The Interplay Between Endothelial Dysfunction and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Hyperreactivity by Astrid Hubert, Andreas Seitz, Valeria Martínez Pereyra, Raffi Bekeredjian, Udo Sechtem, Peter Ong

“…Coronary artery spasm (CAS) is an established cause for anginal chest pain in patients with angiographically unobstructed coronary arteries. …”
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Atrial fibrillation without cardiac anomaly in a 9-year-old child by Myung Hoon Bang, Sung Hye Kim

“…He visited the emergency department with chest pain and palpitation, lasting 2 hours. His electrocardiogram showed narrow-complex tachycardia, which led to the diagnosis of supraventricular tachycardia. …”
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ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF LATE THORACIC ENDOGRAFT MIGRATION by Ricardo Gouveia, Victor Martins, Daniel Brandão, Pedro Brandão, Pedro Sousa, Jacinta Campos, Andreia Coelho, Rita Augusto, Nuno Coelho, Alexandra Canedo

“…He was admitted in the Emergency Department for chest pain. After detecting the endograft migration with detachment from the neck, he was submited to a new endovascular procedure. …”
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Successful surgical repair in an older adult with supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: A case report by Chunle Wang, Xia Xie, Huanwei Zhuang, Zhonghua Huang, Chukwuemeka Daniel Iroegbu, Mi Tang, Chengming Fan, Jinfu Yang

“…The patient developed palpitations and non-anginal chest pain following routine activities for over three months. …”
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Myocardial invasion of squamous cell lung carcinoma presenting as STEMI by Ibrar Anjum, Farwa Eajaz, Moeed Gaffar, Julie Ling

“…We report a case of a 53-year-old man diagnosed with squamous cell lung carcinoma who presented with chest pain and ST-segment elevation on an electrocardiogram. …”
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Acute pericarditis due to EBV infection: a case report by S. Alkan, U. Küçük, S. Şahin

“…A 23-year-old female patient presented with complaints of fever, respiratory distress, and chest pain. Pericardial effusion was detected on transthoracic echocardiography. …”
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Cavitating pulmonary infarct in absence of any co-existing cardiopulmonary disease by Sunil Kumar, Jyoti Kumari

“…A 65-year-old woman presented with typical infective symptoms such as high-grade fever, dyspnea, and pleuritic chest pain. Her vitals were within normal limits except hyperthermia. …”
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