(HealthDay News) -- People discharged from the hospital with noncardiac (not heart-related) chest pain may require more aggressive cardiovascular risk management than they typically receive, a new study has found.
Noncardiac chest pain can be caused by a number of problems, including panic attack, musculoskeletal pain, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and esophageal hypersensitivity.
The study included 320 patients who were admitted to the hospital with what was believed to be unstable angina, evaluated and discharged with a diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain. After the initial diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain, 49 percent of patients were re-evaluated in the emergency department and 42 percent underwent repeated cardiology evaluations.
Only 15 percent of the patients had gastrointestinal (GI) consultations. Of those, 38 percent had esophagogastroduodenoscopy, 4 percent had manometry (13 tests) and 2 percent had pH probes (six probes), the study authors reported. Read more...
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