VOLUME 5 , ISSUE 1 ( January-April, 2019 ) > List of Articles
Bijay Mallikarjun, Gautam Das, Abhisesh Shrestha
Keywords : Gastroesophageal reflux disease, Noncardiac chest pain, Numerical rating scale, Pain detect tool, Patient health questionnaire
Citation Information : Mallikarjun B, Das G, Shrestha A. Chest Pain…? Not Always the Heart…!. J Recent Adv Pain 2019; 5 (1):22-23.
DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10046-0128
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Published Online: 01-08-2019
Copyright Statement: Copyright © 2019; The Author(s).
It has become problematic that the number of noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) patients is increasing among those who come to the emergency room with chest pain as a chief complaint. They tend to come to hospitals often and over many years, even after cardiac chest pain has been excluded from their diagnosis. Moreover, studies have shown that NCCP patients have a high prevalence of anxiety, depression, and disability. However, most NCCP patients are usually treated by cardiologists or primary physicians. Ordinary biomedical approaches often fail to treat NCCP. NCCP is one of the most important functional somatic syndromes from the view of medical economics. The cause of NCCP includes gastroesophageal reflux disease (most common), panic disorder, and esophageal dysmotility.
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