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 anxiety-related chest pain, treatment approaches include cognitive-behavioral therapy, relaxation techniques, stress management, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, and sometimes anti ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

With over a month to digest the long-awaited American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) chest pain guidelines, physicians across the US are mostly happy to see a wide swath of ...

Cardiology > Myocardial Infarction Established Chest Pain Algorithm Not Up to Snuff in U.S. Study — Report of ESC 0/1-hour hs-cTnT algorithm's diagnostic performance goes against the grain by ...