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Acute Chest Pain

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Acute chest pain is one of the most common complaints encountered in medical emergency departments. Chest pain is divided into cardiac and noncardiac chest pain. Causes of cardiac chest pain include angina pectoris (stable and unstable), myocardial infarction (MI) (ST-segment elevation and non-ST-segment elevation), myocarditis, etc. Noncardiac chest pain includes diseases of the great vessels, esophagitis, pneumonia, etc.

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  1. Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh
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  1. Universitätsklinikum München Klinikum Großhadern, Institut für Klinische Radiologie, Marchioninistr. 15, Müchen, 81377, Germany

    Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh (Radiologist, Medical Illustrator) (Radiologist, Medical Illustrator)

  2. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Sabah Hospital, Kuwait

    Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh (Radiologist, Medical Illustrator) (Radiologist, Medical Illustrator)

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Al-Tubaikh, J.A. (2010). Acute Chest Pain. In: Al-Tubaikh, J.A. (eds) Internal Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03709-2_26

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