A woman in her mid-40s presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of pleuritic-like chest pain on the left side with accompanying shortness of breath, nausea, and loss of appetite. The ...
When it comes to heart health, women need to pay attention to the subtle symptoms that may indicate a heart attack.
When you find yourself at the emergency room, one of the first things often asked is how much pain you are in. Although we may associate the severity level of pain as an indication of how in danger we ...
Dr. M. Blair DeYoung, a McLaren Cardiovascular Institute interventional cardiologist, says simply, “If you’re having symptoms ...
Many people think heart disease only affects men, but it is actually the number one cause of death for women too. The problem is, heart disease in women can look different from what we often see in ...
It's been almost a year since Michael Reagan, 50, came down with COVID-19. "I woke up first thing in the morning and I felt really hot and out of breath," he said, recalling the morning of March 22, ...
“The most common diagnoses this week were cases involving chest pain, falls in the elderly, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, and nausea/vomiting. The American College of Cardiology and American ...
The burning, gnawing sensation that strikes in the upper abdomen often gets dismissed as ordinary indigestion or heartburn. Yet for millions of Americans, this pain signals something more serious: ...
To accurately assess and diagnose this patient’s condition, the clinician needs to consider conditions that would cause pleuritic-like chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea. Pleuritic pain ...