Search for dissertations about: "acute chest pain"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words acute chest pain.

  2. 1. Chest pain and ischemic heart disease : Diagnosis and management in primary health care

    Author : Staffan Nilsson; Sigvard Mölstad; Eva Nylander; Ulf Lindblad; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Chest pain; ischemic heart disease; primary health care; diagnosis; lipid lowering drugs; Medicine; Medicin;

    Abstract : Background and aims. In patients consulting for chest pain, it is of great importance to evaluate the possibility of ischemic heart disease (IHD). READ MORE

  4. 2. Unexplained chest pain in men and women - symptom perception and outcome

    Author : Annika Janson Fagring; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Chest pain; unexplained chest pain; gender; daily life; psychosocial factors; stress; healthrelated quality of life;

    Abstract : Patients with chest pain account for a large number of all patients seeking health care. The majority of these patients are referred to emergency departments (ED) and many of them are given a discharge diagnosis of unexplained chest pain (UCP). Our knowledge of this increasing number of patients with UCP is limited. READ MORE

  5. 3. Craniofacial pain of cardiac origin : an interdisciplinary study

    Author : Marcelo Kreiner; Annika Isberg; Antoon de Laat; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Acute myocardial infarction; myocardial ischemia; craniofacial pain; referred pain; Radiological research; Radiologisk forskning;

    Abstract : Referred pain is frequently associated with misdiagnosis and unnecessary therapy directed to the pain location instead of its origin. When craniofacial pain is the sole symptom of myocardial ischemia, failure to recognize its cardiac source can endanger the patient. READ MORE

  6. 4. Patients with unexplained chest pain ? Pain experience, stress, coping and health-related quality of life

    Author : Margaretha Jerlock; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : chest pain; coping; illness; life events; nursing; quality of life; sleep; stress symptom;

    Abstract : Chest pain is a common symptom that causes individuals to seek acute care at emergency departments; however, more than half of these patients are judged to have no organic cause to their pain. In Sweden, the number of patients discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of unexplained chest pain (UCP) has increased from 8,432 in 1987 to 17,555 in 2005. READ MORE

  7. 5. Early diagnostic evaluation of patients with possible acute syndrome, with special emphasis on troponin T

    Author : Catharina Borna; Lund Medicin; []
    Keywords : chest pain; acute coronary syndrome; High sensitivity troponin; emergency department;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE