What Causes Pain In The Middle Of The Chest?

Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2016

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Question : Pain in middle of chest, left arm aches, vision is blurry, and right calf aches.

Answered by Dr. Ilir Sharka (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
I would recommend as follows:

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!

Regarding your concern, I would explain that it is important performing a comprehensive differential diagnosis between different causes that may lead to this symptomatology:

- inflammation
- coronary artery disease
- anxiety, etc.

For this reason I recommend going to the ER for a careful physical exam and some tests:

- a resting ECG and cardiac enzymes
- a chest x-ray study
- some blood lab tests ( complete blood count, blood electrolytes, PCR, sedimentation rate, kidney and liver function tests).

Hope you will find this answer helpful!

Kind regards,

Dr. Iliri

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar