Pleuritic chest pain in a young female: a reminder for acute health care providers.
Aibek E MirrakhimovAlaa M AliCarolyn StroncekPublished in: Case reports in emergency medicine (2014)
Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for emergency department visits. Emergency medicine doctors should focus their initial assessment on patients' stability. History, physical examination, and ancillary testing should exclude serious causes such as acute coronary syndrome, acute aortic syndromes, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, esophageal perforation, and rupture as well as pericardial tamponade. Young age should not be used alone as a predictor of a benign condition. Below we present a case of a 24-year-old female who was found to have ascending aortic dissection and was sent for emergent surgery.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- aortic dissection
- pulmonary embolism
- emergency department
- acute coronary syndrome
- end stage renal disease
- emergency medicine
- healthcare
- inferior vena cava
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- middle aged
- mental health
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- heart failure
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- left ventricular
- intensive care unit
- coronary artery disease
- respiratory failure
- health information
- surgical site infection
- social media