"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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| 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.