A Rare Cause of Chest Pain Identified on Point-of-care Echocardiography: A Case Report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cardiac masses are a rare cause of chest pain. They can often be missed on a chest radiograph performed to evaluate non-specific chest pain and are not readily evaluated with traditional laboratory testing. However, these masses can be visualized with point-of-care ultrasound.

Case report

We present a case of a 19-year-old female presenting with intermittent chest pain, palpitations, and weakness present for two months. The patient had previously been evaluated at our emergency department one week earlier and was diagnosed with anxiety before being discharged. Besides a tachycardic and labile heart rate, physical examination and laboratory testing were unremarkable. Point-of-care cardiac echocardiography subsequently demonstrated findings concerning for a cardia

SUBMITTER: Chin BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9197749 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature