"Chest Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Pressure, burning, or numbness in the chest.
| Descriptor ID |
D002637
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.592.612.233
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| Concept/Terms |
Chest Pain- Chest Pain
- Chest Pains
- Pain, Chest
- Pains, Chest
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chest Pain" by people in Profiles.
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Evaluating patients with chest pain in the emergency department. BMJ. 2025 Mar 28; 388:r136.
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Guidelines for reasonable and appropriate care in the emergency department (GRACE): Recurrent, low-risk chest pain in the emergency department. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Jul; 28(7):718-744.
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Sex-Based Considerations in the Evaluation of Chest Pain and Management of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2020 06 23; 22(8):39.
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Transdiaphragmatic Migration of a Spinal Fixation Rod into the Lung. Lung. 2018 06; 196(3):369-371.
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Deciding wisely: A case for an effective use of myocardial perfusion imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2018 02; 25(1):53-61.
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An easy miss: aortic dissection in a 'healthy' male. BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Aug 07; 2017.
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Efficacy and Tolerability of Palliative Split-Course Thoracic Chemoradiotherapy for Symptomatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 2015 Dec; 38(6):605-9.
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Chest pain as presenting symptom of Staphyloccocus aureus epidural abscess associated with anti-tumor necrosis factor and methotrexate therapy. J Clin Rheumatol. 2009 Dec; 15(8):396-8.
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Diagnosis in General Practice . Chest pain. BMJ. 2009 Nov 03; 339:b4117.
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Who should be admitted to the chest pain observation unit?: one urban hospital experience. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2007 Sep; 6(3):117-20.