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Differentiating Between Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Chest Pain

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Still some general observations are possible regarding chest pain originating from the heart. The typical pain of cardiac origin is a central chest pain which occurs on walking or other forms of exercise, known as effort angina. Pain of pericarditis can increase on swallowing and mimic pain from the food pipe.

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Brugada Syndrome: Diagnosis and Risk Stratification

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They include myocardial ischemia, acute pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, external compression due to mass over the right ventricular outflow tract region, and metabolic disorders like hyper or hypokalemia and hypercalcemia. These are the conditions which have to be considered or excluded as they can sometimes manifest Brugada pattern on ECG.