Understanding Ischemic and Neuralgic Chest Pain: Insights from Cardiologist Maria Yakovleva and Neurologist Maxim Domashenko

2023-07-06 11:01:12

“If all these criteria converged into one “bouquet”, then this is a typical pain in the heart of an ischemic nature,” says cardiologist Maria Yakovleva. – At the same time, there is no difference who experiences such pain – a man or a woman, there are no gender differences in the nature of pain.

– Sharp pain in the chest is often mistaken for a heart attack. Similar symptoms in neuralgia, a syndrome no less dangerous to health. When there is discomfort in the left side of the chest, patients often turn to a general practitioner or cardiologist, suspecting angina pectoris. But with coronary heart disease, the pain is usually localized behind the sternum, burning and unbearable, giving either to the arm or to the lower jaw, says neurologist Maxim Domashenko.

Maxim Domashenko – Deputy Chief Physician for the Medical Department of the City Clinical Hospital named after I.I. S. P. Botkin of the Moscow Department of Health, neurologist, candidate of medical sciences.

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