Pain in the chest( chest) - Causes, symptoms and treatment. MF.

If you are concerned about chest pain, please be aware that there are many reasons for this. Let's look into this.

Possible causes of chest pain:

1) Chest pain with heart and vascular disease:

Angina pectoris. Pain with angina usually occurs during exercise and passes a few minutes from nitroglycerin.

Myocardial infarction is characterized by acute painful tearing, nitroglycerin does not help.it is necessary to urgently hospitalize a patient in the intensive care unit.

Increased blood pressure may be manifested by pain in the heart. This is due to the lack of blood to the cells of the heart muscle. The heart starts to demand more oxygen, starts to hurt.

The dissecting aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is manifested by intense blunt pain along the spine, weakness.

Thromboembolism of the pulmonary artery and infarction pneumonia occurs when a pulmonary artery is blocked by a thrombus or embolus. It manifests a dull pain in the depth of the chest.

2) Chest pain in diseases of the respiratory system.

Pneumonia usually does not hurt. But if the pleura is involved in the inflammatory process, the pain is quite intense. Such patients try not to breathe deeply, since deepening of breathing causes pain on the side of the lesion where pleurisy is localized.

Pleurisy. This is an inflammation of the pulmonary sac or in another way the pleura, where our lungs are placed. Pain is blunt with severe restriction of chest mobility.

Bronchitis is characterized by blunt, non-intensive pain when coughing, but not always.

Tracheitis manifests as a pain in the cough in the upper half of the chest in front.

3) Chest pain in diseases of the nervous system.

Neuroses. Pain with neuroses is not amenable to treatment. As a rule, it itself passes with the elimination of the factor that causes neurosis.

Neuralgia is characterized by pain along the course of the ribs, the slopes of the body and movements are prone to a non-intensive, but rather unpleasant, pain-relieving pain.

4) Chest pain with cancer.

Pain in oncological diseases in the chest is very painful. Its intensity and localization is enviable from the location of the tumor. Requires the appointment of narcotic drugs for analgesia.

With the development of tumor processes in the mediastinum.

What should I do if I have chest pain?

Take any painkiller and seek immediate medical attention.

Common mistakes of self-treatment for pain in gudi:

Progression of the disease and the development of complications and life-threatening conditions. For example, with the development of the dissecting aortic aneurysm, the probability of its rupture is great, which causes internal bleeding, often leading to the development of acute cardiovascular insufficiency and death in acute blood loss. With the development of thromboembolism of the pulmonary artery in the absence of timely examination and treatment, it is possible to develop acute respiratory and cardiac failure, which also leads to the development of a life-threatening condition.

Which specialists do you need help with chest pain?

• Therapist or general practitioner( family doctor).
• Cardiologist
• Vascular surgeon
• Pulmonologist
• Neurologist
• Oncologist
• Anesthesiologist-resuscitator( in a critical condition in the development of life-threatening complications).