11. There are a number of causes of chest pain. 12. Was there any chest pain, palpitation, or shortness of breath just before consciousness was lost? 13. The patient complained of severe chest pains. 14. He was admitted last night for chest pains. 15. He thought he might be having a heart attack, but his chest pains were just a false alarm. 16. Her chest pains turned out to be caused by a minor heart attack. 17. It has also been suggested that manometry is only worthwhile in the investigation of patients with non-cardiac chest pain. 18. Reasons for referral were classified as, dysphagia, non-cardiac chest pain, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, connective tissue disease, and other. 19. Despite this high figure they concluded that oesophageal manometry was beneficial in patients with chest pain, dysphagia, and those in whom achalasia is suspected. 20. Patients developing these complications have usually had large volume injections of sclerosant and postsclerotherapy chest pain. |