Even women experience chest pain and have equal number of chances as men to have a heart attack. The most common symptom of heart attack for both men and women is chest pain or discomfort. Many signs of a heart attack in women differ from the symptoms men typically experience. When you think of the signature symptom of a heart attack, chest pain probably comes to mind.
Cigarettes-tied-with-rope-and-wick-isolateed-on-whiteAlthough risk factors for heart attack are similar among men and women, women are more likely to have more serious heart attacks, resulting in death. Any heart attack symptom is a warning sign, even if you do not experience chest pain.
Muscle and bone causes Some types of chest pain are associated with injuries and other problems affecting the structures that make up the chest wall. Unlike pain in the left side of the chest, people who feel pain in the right chest area are more likely not to have heart-related conditions. Chest pain is a diagnostic challenge in outpatient family medicine since there are so many conditions, both benign and serious, that can cause chest pain.
Costochondritis causes chest pain, felt at the front of the chest. The pain can be felt anywhere in the chest, depending on the site of the inflammation. The gallbladder is located along the right bottom of the chest by the liver, and it is possible to feel right chest pain along that area.
Typical symptoms of angina are pain in the left arm or left-sided chest pain. The pain in the chest is often described as pressure, squeezing, or fullness within the chest cavity. The typical symptoms of chest pain caused by angina are pain, ache, discomfort or tightness across the front of your chest when you exert yourself.
During a heart attack, chest pain is usually described as a mild-to-severe ache, pressure, or squeezing in the center of your chest that lasts more than several minutes. Costochondritis discomfort is experienced either as a stabbing sharp pain or a dull, constant, aching pain. Although a heart attack is classically associated with severe pain across the chest, many people feel only a tightness or squeezing sensation in the chest.
A heart attack is a result of a blood clot that is blocking blood flow to your heart muscle. When the plaque ruptures and completely blocks the artery, no blood will flow to parts of the heart muscle, and it begins to die. CAD happens when a sticky substance called plaque builds up in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, reducing blood flow.
When plaque breaks off, the resultant blood clot blocks the artery and begins starving the heart of blood and oxygen, a condition called ischemia. Blood supply to the heart muscle is typically reduced by atherosclerosis, the build-up of fatty plaque in the arteries that supply the heart. You may be given medicine to treat or prevent a blood clot, maintain blood flow to your heart, or decrease pain.
The most common cause of chest pain in children and adolescents is musculoskeletal or chest-wall pain. Chest pain has a variety of sources, and virtually any structure in the chest can cause pain. Costochondritis is a common cause of chest pain in children and adolescents.
One of the most common causes of chest pain in early pregnancy is heartburn. Chest pain is a common and frightening symptom, especially in the middle-aged. Chest pain is noncardiac in origin in more than 98% of children and adolescents who complain of it.
Not all patients with pulmonary embolism have chest pain when breathing. Patients whose chest pain had subsided for more than one month, whose chest pain had been investigated already and/or who came for follow-up for previously diagnosed chest pain were excluded. In patients with pulmonary embolism who present with chest pain when breathing, the chest x-ray is almost always normal.
Chronic chest pain usually is noncardiac, and causes can be musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, psychogenic, or idiopathic. No two patients with pulmonary embolism have the same type of chest pain. Patients who had no chest pain were not significantly different from patients with chest pain in type of ACS, elevated troponin level or coronary stenosis.
You may feel chest pain anywhere from your neck to your upper abdomen. Chest pain is usually described as squeezing or burning, substernal in location and radiating to the back, neck, jaw or arms, making it sometimes indistinguishable from cardiac chest pain. The chest pain experienced due to angina can radiate to the arms, neck, shoulders, and the back as well.
You might only feel the pain in one part of the body, such as your arms, shoulders, jaw, stomach, back, or neck. The pain may spread to the arm, shoulder, jaw, or back. The pain can sometimes radiate to the left arm, shoulder, back, and the jaw as well, and last for a few minutes.
