Suggests More Tests for Chest Pain Diagnosis
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Driscoll et al. (Pediatrics 57:648, May 1976) reported a series of 43 patients with chest pain evaluated by history and physical examination, psychiatric interview, screening laboratory studies, ECG, and chest x-ray film. No organic cause was identified in 45% of patients, and various psychiatric aspects of the pain were discussed. The history obtained from pediatric patients is often suboptimal, and specific pain characteristics and associations cannot be defined. We therefore propose that more vigorous diagnostic work-ups are necessary before chest pain can be classed as "idiopathic."
2016 ◽
Vol 5
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pp. 310-313