Emerging technologies and approaches promise to transform chest pain evaluation, potentially saving more lives while reducing unnecessary testing and treatment for non-cardiac conditions.

For people with stable chest pain, a personalized "precision" testing approach led to more efficient evaluations for heart disease risk and improved diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery ...

For cardiac-related chest pain, preventive approaches include controlling risk factors through cholesterol management, blood pressure optimization, diabetes control, smoking cessation, regular ...

In a surgical first, doctors have replaced a heart valve through a small neck incision using robotic assistance, avoiding the ...

The pain from chest tubes is often so intense that patients are unable to become ambulatory. However, just 24 hours after removal, most patients feel well enough to be discharged.

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on the management of patients ...

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, chair of the ACC/AHA 2021 Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain, discusses the importance of creating a standard approach to evaluating ...

"New onset chest pain is a common clinical problem that involves a lot of testing, work and expense," said study lead Pamela S. Douglas, M.D., a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and ...

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"Our hope is that we have provided an evidence-based approach to evaluating patients that will assist all of us who manage, diagnose, and treat patients who experience chest pain," said Gulati ...