Evaluation of chest pain in the pediatric patient

J Thull-Freedman - Medical Clinics, 2010 - medical.theclinics.com
Many causes of chest pain in children are benign and self-limited. Nonetheless, serious and
life-threatening etiologies exist, and the challenge to the practitioner is to be able to identify …

Epidemiology and risk factors of pediatric chest pain: a systematic review

GD Eslick - Pediatric Clinics, 2010 - pediatric.theclinics.com
Chest pain among children and adolescents is common 1–4; however, knowledge of the
epidemiology of pediatric chest pain and risk factors associated with it is scant. An …

Aetiological evaluation of chest pain in childhood and adolescence

E Aygun, ST Aygun, T Uysal, F Aygun… - Cardiology in the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Background: Chest pain, as a common cause of hospital admissions in childhood,
necessitates detailed investigations due to a wide range of differential diagnoses. In this …

Follow-up study of patients admitted to the pediatric emergency department for chest pain

V Gesuete, D Fregolent, S Contorno, G Tamaro… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Chest pain is a relatively common cause of admission to the Emergency Department, being
related in most of the cases to benign conditions with only a minority of the cases affected by …

The causes of chest pain in children and the criteria for targeted myocardial enzyme testing in identifying the causes of chest pain in children

L Chen, H Duan, X Li, Z Yang, M Jiao… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aims: Chest pain is a common complaint at pediatric cardiology clinics and often leads to an
extensive cardiac evaluation. In this study, we analyzed the causes of chest pain in Chinese …

The etiology of chest pain in children admitted to cardiology clinics and the use echocardiography to screen for cardiac chest pain in children

L Chen, H Duan, G Li, X Li - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aims Chest pain is a common disease in children. Most cardiac specialists use
echocardiography to evaluate the etiology of and screen for children's cardiac chest pain …

Chest pain in pediatric patients in the emergency department-Presentation, risk factors and outcomes-A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Alsabri, AA Elshanbary, AZ Nourelden, AH Fathallah… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Objective This study aimed to assess and determine the presentation, risk factors, and
outcomes of pediatric patients who were admitted for cardiac-related chest pain …

Chest pain in a pediatric emergency department: clinical assessment and management reality in a third-level Portuguese hospital

R Pissarra, M Pereira, R Amorim, BP Neto… - Porto Biomedical …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: Chest pain in children and adolescents is a common complaint in the
emergency department (ED), being mostly benign. A thorough patient history and physical …

Emergency Department Admissions of Children with Chest Pain before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

R Lubrano, V Martucci, A Marcellino, M Sanseviero… - Children, 2023 - mdpi.com
Objectives: We compared the number of accesses, causes, and instrumental evaluations of
chest pain in children between the pre-COVID-19 era and the COVID-19 period and …

Diagnosis and diagnostic modalities in pediatric patients with elevated troponin

TH Harris, JG Gossett - Pediatric cardiology, 2016 - Springer
Care of adults with coronary artery disease focuses on troponins to rapidly move patients to
catheterization. Troponins are increasingly drawn in children, but emergent catheterization …