Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Pediatric Patient

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 327-347

  Thull Freedman, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Electrocardiogram; Pediatric chest pain; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESOPHAGITIS; EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA; FAMILY HISTORY; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HEART PALPITATION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; THORAX DEFORMITY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST PAIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 77950311755     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2010.01.004     Document Type: Review

References (61)

1. Rowe B.H., Dulberg C.S., Peterson R.G., et al. Characteristics of children presenting with chest pain to a pediatric emergency department. CMAJ 143 5 (1990) 388-394
2. Gastesi Larrañaga M., Fernandez Landaluce A., Mintegi Raso S., et al. Chest pain in pediatric emergency departments: a usually benign process. An Pediatr (Barc) 59 3 (2003) 234-238
3. Massin M.M., Montesanti J., Gerard P., et al. Spectrum and frequency of illness presenting to a pediatric emergency department. Acta Clin Belg 61 (2006) 161-165
4. Massin M.M., Bourguignont A., Coremans C., et al. Chest pain in pediatric patients presenting to an emergency department or to a cardiac clinic. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 43 3 (2004) 231-238
5. Selbst S.M., Ruddy R.M., Clark B.J., et al. Pediatric chest pain: a prospective study. Pediatrics 82 3 (1988) 319-323
6. Lin C.H., Lin W.C., Ho Y.J., et al. Children with chest pain visiting the emergency department. Pediatr Neonatol 49 2 (2008) 26-29
7. Cagdas D.N., and Pac F.A. Cardiac chest pain in children. Anadolu Kardiyol Derg 9 (2009) 401-406
8. Driscoll D.J., Glicklich L.B., and Callen W.J. Chest pain in children: a prospective study. Pediatrics 57 5 (1976) 648-651
9. Zavaras-Angelidou K.A., Weinhouse E., and Nelson D.B. Review of 180 episodes of chest pain in 134 children. Pediatr Emerg Care 8 4 (1992) 189-193
10. Evangelista J.A., Parsons M., and Renneburg A.K. Chest pain in children: diagnosis through history and physical examination. J Pediatr Health Care 14 1 (2000) 3-8
11. Lam J.C., and Tobias J.D. Follow-up survey of children and adolescents with chest pain. South Med J 94 9 (2001) 921-924
12. Yildirim A., Karakurt C., Karademir S., et al. Chest pain in children. Int Pediatr 19 3 (2004) 175-179
13. Rhee D., Solowiejczyk D., Altmann K., et al. Incidence of aortic root dilatation in pectus excavatum and its association with Marfan syndrome. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162 9 (2008) 882-885
14. Disla E., Rhim H.R., Reddy A., et al. Costochondritis: a prospective analysis in the emergency department setting. Arch Intern Med 154 21 (1994) 2466-2469
15. Brown R.T., and Jamil K. Costochondritis in adolescents: a follow-up study. Clin Pediatr 32 8 (1993) 499-500
16. Mukamel M., Kornreich L., Horev G., et al. Tietze's syndrome in children and infants. J Pediatr 131 (1997) 774-775
17. Saltzman D.A., Schmitz M.L., Smith S.D., et al. The slipping rib syndrome in children. Pediatr Anesth 11 (2001) 740-743
18. Miller A.J., and Texidor T.A. Precordial catch, a neglected syndrome of precordial pain. JAMA 159 (1955) 1364-1365
19. Gumbiner C.H. Precordial catch syndrome. South Med J 96 1 (2003) 38-41
20. Weins L., Sabath R., and Ewing L. Chest pain in otherwise healthy children and adolescents is frequently caused by exercise-induced asthma. Pediatrics 90 (1992) 350-353
21. Danduran M.J., Earing M.G., Sheridan D.C., et al. Chest pain: characteristics of children/adolescents. Pediatr Cardiol 29 (2008) 775-781
22. Ikeda R.M., Kondracki S.F., Drabkin P.D., et al. Pleurodynia among football players at a high school. JAMA 270 (1993) 2205-2206
23. Wilcox D.T., Glick P.L., Karamanoukian H.L., et al. Spontaneous pneumothorax: a single-institution, 12-year experience in patients under 16 years of age. J Pediatr Surg 30 10 (1995) 1452-1454
24. Lee C.H., Wu C.C., and Lin C.Y. Etiologies of spontaneous pneumomediastinum in children of different ages. Pediatr Neonatol 50 5 (2009) 190-195
25. Damore D.T., and Dayan P.S. Medical causes of pneumomediastinum in children. Clin Pediatr 40 (2001) 87-91
26. Van Ommen C.H., Heijboer H., Buller H.R., et al. Venous thromboembolism in childhood: a prospective two-year registry in the Netherlands. J Pediatr 139 5 (2001) 676-681
27. Monagle P., Adams M., Mahoney M., et al. Outcome of pediatric thromboembolic disease: a report from the Canadian childhood thrombophilia registry. Pediatr Res 47 6 (2000) 763-766
28. Vavilala M.S., Nathens A.B., Jurkovich G.J., et al. Risk factors for venous thromboembolism in pediatric trauma. J Trauma 52 5 (2002) 922-927
29. Berezin S., Medow M.S., Glassman M.S., et al. Chest pain of gastrointestinal origin. Arch Dis Child 63 (1988) 1457-1460
30. Sabri M.R., Ghavanini A.A., Haghigat M., et al. Chest pain in children and adolescents: epigastric tenderness as a guide to reduce unnecessary work-up. Pediatr Cardiol 24 (2003) 3-5
31. Ferreira C.T., Vieira M.C., Vieira S.M., et al. [Eosinophilic esophagitis in 29 pediatric patients]. Arq Gastroenterol 45 2 (2008) 141-146 [in Portuguese]
32. Nijhawan S., Shimpi L., Mathur A., et al. Management of ingested foreign bodies in upper gastrointestinal tract: report on 170 patients. Indian J Gastroenterol 22 2 (2003) 46-48
33. Biller J.A., Flores A.F., Buie T., et al. Tetracycline-induced esophagitis in adolescent patients. J Pediatr 120 (1992) 144-145
34. Kundra M., Yousaf S., Maqbool, et al. Boerhaave syndrome: unusual cause of chest pain. Pediatr Emerg Care 23 7 (2007) 489-491
35. Pantell R.H., and Goodman B.W. Adolescent chest pain: a prospective study. Pediatrics 71 (1983) 881-887
36. Mahle W.T., Campbell R.M., and Favaloro-Sabatier J. Myocardial infarction in adolescents. J Pediatr 151 (2007) 150-154
37. Lane J.R., and Ben-Shachar G. Myocardial infarction in healthy adolescents. Pediatrics 120 4 (2007) e938-e943
38. Duvernoy C.S., Bates E.R., Fay W.P., et al. Acute myocardial infarction in 2 adolescent males. Clin Cardiol 21 (1998) 687-690
39. Aragon J. A rare noncardiac cause for acute myocardial infarction in a 13-year-old patient. Cardiol Rev 12 (2004) 31-36
40. Bria S., Chessa M., and Abella R. Aborted sudden death in a young football player due to anomalous origin of the left coronary artery: successful surgical correction. J Cardiovasc Med 9 (2008) 834-838
41. Amabile N., Fraisse A., and Quilici J. Hypoplastic coronary artery disease: report of one case. Heart 91 (2005) e12
42. Newburger J.W., Takahashi M., Burns J.C., et al. The treatment of Kawasaki syndrome with intravenous gamma globulin. N Engl J Med 315 (1986) 341-347
43. Furusho K., Sato K., Soeda T., et al. High-dose intravenous gammaglobulin for Kawasaki disease. Lancet 2 8363 (1983) 1359
44. Kato H., Sugimura T., and Akagi T. Long-term consequences of Kawasaki disease: a 10- to 21-year follow-up study of 594 patients. Circulation 94 (1996) 1379-1385
45. Montalambert M., Maunoury C., and Acar P. Myocardial ischaemia in children with sickle cell disease. Arch Dis Child 89 (2004) 359-362
46. Freedman S.B., Haladyn J.K., Floh A., et al. Pediatric myocarditis: emergency department clinical findings and diagnostic evaluation. Pediatrics 120 (2007) 1278-1285
47. Durani Y., Egan M., Baffa J., et al. Pediatric myocarditis: presenting clinical characteristics. Am J Emerg Med 27 (2009) 942-947
48. Gatzoulis M.A., Munk M.D., Merchant N., et al. Isolated congenital absence of the pericardium: clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management. Ann Thorac Surg 69 (2000) 1209-1215
49. Vos P., Pulles-Heintzberger C.F., and Delhaas T. Supraventricular tachycardia: an incidental diagnosis in infants and difficult to prove in children. Acta Paediatr 92 (2003) 1058-1061
50. Freed L.A., Levy D., Levine R.A., et al. Prevalence and clinical outcome of mitral-valve prolapse. N Engl J Med 341 (1999) 1
51. van Loon R.L., Roofthooft M.T., van Osch-Gevers M., et al. Clinical characterization of pediatric pulmonary hypertension: complex presentation and diagnosis. J Pediatr 155 (2009) 176-182
52. Fikar C.R., Amrhein J.A., and Harris P. Dissecting aortic aneurysm in childhood and adolescence. Clin Pediatr 20 (1981) 78-83
53. Fikar C.R., and Koch W. Etiologic factors of acute aortic dissection in children and young adults. Clin Pediatr 39 (2000) 71-80
54. Van Karnebeek C.D., Naeff M.S., Mulder B.J., et al. Natural history of cardiovascular manifestations in Marfan syndrome. Arch Dis Child 84 2 (2001) 129-137
55. Murdoch J.L., Walker B.A., Halpern B.L., et al. Life expectancy and causes of death in the Marfan syndrome. N Engl J Med 286 (1972) 804-808
56. Carlson M., and Silberbach M. Dissection of the aorta in Turner syndrome: two cases and review of 85 cases in the literature. J Med Genet 44 (2007) 745-749
57. Lin A.E., Lippe B., and Rosenfeld R.G. Further delineation of aortic dilation, dissection, and rupture in patients with Turner syndrome. Pediatrics 102 1 (1998) e12
58. Lipsitz J.D., Masia C., Apfel H., et al. Noncardiac chest pain and psychopathology in children and adolescents. J Psychosom Res 59 (2005) 185-188
59. Asnes R.S., Santulli R., and Bemporad J.R. Psychogenic chest pain in children. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 20 12 (1981) 788-791
60. Biss T.T., Brandão L.R., Kahr W.H., et al. Clinical probability score and D-dimer estimation lack utility in the diagnosis of childhood pulmonary embolism. J Thromb Haemost 7 10 (2009) 1633-1638
61. Rajpurkar M., Warrier I., Chitiur M., et al. Pulmonary embolism: experience at a single children's hospital. Thromb Res 119 6 (2007) 699-703