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Psychological aspects of non-cardiac chest pain. 1995

A W Serlie, and R A Erdman, and J Passchier, and R W Trijsburg, and F J ten Cate
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Approximately 30% of patients visiting a cardiologist for the first time with complaints of chest pain appear to have normal coronary arteries. These patients generally have a higher prevalence of atypical chest pain, are relatively young, often female, in most cases suffer from panic disorder and have high scores on depression and anxiety scales. In this article some of the recent studies conducted in this particular line of research are reviewed and some possible explanations for the relationship between complaints and non-cardiac findings are presented. Furthermore, the ability of predicting non-cardiac chest pain from psychological factors and a range of follow-up studies are discussed. Finally the possibilities of treating cardiac phobia are mentioned.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D009449 Neurocirculatory Asthenia A clinical syndrome characterized by palpitation, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, labored breathing, subjective complaints of effort and discomfort, all following slight PHYSICAL EXERTION. Other symptoms may be DIZZINESS, tremulousness, SWEATING, and INSOMNIA. Neurocirculatory asthenia is most typically seen as a form of anxiety disorder. Cardiac Neurosis,Effort Syndrome,Hyperkinetic Heart Syndrome,Phobia, Cardiac,Asthenia, Neurocirculatory,Cardiac Neuroses,Cardiac Phobia,Heart Syndrome, Hyperkinetic,Neurocirculatory Asthenias,Neurosis, Cardiac,Syndrome, Effort,Syndrome, Hyperkinetic Heart
D010348 Patient Care Team Care of patients by a multidisciplinary team usually organized under the leadership of a physician; each member of the team has specific responsibilities and the whole team contributes to the care of the patient. Health Care Team,Interdisciplinary Health Team,Medical Care Team,Multidisciplinary Care Team,Multidisciplinary Health Team,Healthcare Team,Care Team, Health,Care Team, Medical,Care Team, Multidisciplinary,Care Team, Patient,Care Teams, Health,Care Teams, Patient,Health Care Teams,Health Team, Interdisciplinary,Health Team, Multidisciplinary,Healthcare Teams,Interdisciplinary Health Teams,Medical Care Teams,Multidisciplinary Care Teams,Multidisciplinary Health Teams,Patient Care Teams,Team, Health Care,Team, Healthcare,Team, Interdisciplinary Health,Team, Medical Care,Team, Multidisciplinary Care,Team, Multidisciplinary Health,Team, Patient Care,Teams, Interdisciplinary Health
D011613 Psychotherapy A generic term for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbances primarily by verbal or nonverbal communication. Psychotherapies
D002637 Chest Pain Pressure, burning, or numbness in the chest. Precordial Catch,Precordial Catch Syndrome,Texidor's Twinge,Chest Pains,Pain, Chest,Pains, Chest,Syndrome, Precordial Catch,Texidor Twinge
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D005260 Female Females
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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