Pediatria pre prax 6/2016

Chest pain in children

Chest pain is a nonspecific symptom which signals a minor disturbance and serious diseases occurring in children from an early age. For parents raising concerns for the well-known linkages among adults between chest pain and myocardial infarction frequently. And that why children are sending to investigate children’s cardiologist. Chest pain is after murmur the second most common reason a professional examination, even though children are rarely a symptom of heart disease unlike adults. Chest pain may have originated in the chest wall involvement, intrathoracic organs and surrounding areas (neck, shoulders, abdomenk) and its differential diagnosis is very broad. To eliminate possible organic causes as well as considering a psychogenic cause pain in the apex of the heart caused anxiety with neurovegetative unstable people.

Keywords: chest pain, differential diagnosis, causes