In this article, we will discuss the Common Causes of Chest Pain. So, let’s get started.
Causes
1. Psychological e.g. anxiety or cardiac neurosis
2. Cardiac (42%)
- Myocardial ischemia (angina)
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Mitral valve prolapse syndrome
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic aneurysm
3. Gastroesophageal (31%)
- Esophagitis
- Diffuse esophageal spasm
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Hiatus hernia
- Mallory-Weiss syndrome
4. Massive pulmonary embolism (2%)
5. Mediastinal
- Tracheitis
- Malignancy
6. Musculoskeletal
- Osteoarthritis
- Costochondritis (Tietz’s syndrome)
- Injury (muscle/rib)
- Epidemic myalgia (Bornholm disease)
7. Lungs/pleura
- Pneumonia (consolidation)
- Pneumothorax
- Malignancy
- Pleurisy
8. Neurological
- Prolapse intervertebral disc
- Neuralgia e.g. Herpes zoster
- Thoracic outlet syndrome