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Atypical chest pain
1Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. njouriles@metrohealth.org
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|January 16, 1999
Abstract:
The initial approach to patients with a chief complaint of chest pain is to rule out myocardial ischemia. There are, however, other life-threatening causes of chest pain, including pulmonary emobilism and aortic dissection among many others. This article reviews several of these disease processes.