Atypical chest pain.
Chest pain is a common reason why patients seek medical consultation. Chest pain can be caused by life-threatening diseases and requires extensive diagnostic evaluation, especially to exclude acute cardiac pathologies. However, in the case of atypical chest pain with a normal electrocardiogram and serum levels of myocardial necrosis markers with in the reference ranges, non-cardiac causes of chest pain should be considered. This report describes the case of a 90-year-old female patient with recurrent chest pain who was eventually diagnosed with osteoporotic vertebral fractures of the thoracic spine.
Stachura
Magdalena
M
Department of Cardiology, Division of Cardiologic Critical Care, the Ministry of Interior and Administration Hospital, Lublin, Poland. magdas10@onet.eu
Dubejko
Janusz
J
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000150:complications; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries*