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Issues with the esophagus can also cause sensations of chest pain and discomfort. That can be due to food getting stuck on its way down, inflammation of the lining of the esophagus or muscle ...
The symptoms of COVID-19 are variable depending on the type of variant contracted, ranging from mild symptoms to a potentially fatal illness. [1][2] Common symptoms include coughing, fever, loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (ageusia), with less common ones including headaches, nasal congestion and runny nose, muscle pain, sore throat, diarrhea ...
Especially when accompanied by shortness of breath, these symptoms can indicate cardiac amyloidosis, Zoghbi says. “It’s a problem of protein misfolding,” he explains. “The protein, which ...
Myocarditis. Other names. Inflammatory cardiomyopathy (infectious) A microscope image of myocarditis at autopsy in a person with acute onset of heart failure. Specialty. Infectious disease, cardiology. Symptoms. Shortness of breath, chest pain, decreased ability to exercise, irregular heartbeat [ 1 ] Complications.
Psychogenic causes of chest pain can include panic attacks; however, this is a diagnosis of exclusion. [12] In children, the most common causes for chest pain are musculoskeletal (76–89%), exercise-induced asthma (4–12%), gastrointestinal illness (8%), and psychogenic causes (4%). [13] Chest pain in children can also have congenital causes.
As respiratory virus season approaches in the U.S., some are concerned about whether XEC could cause a fall surge, and if the new COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out will protect against it.
Long COVID or long-haul COVID is a group of health problems persisting or developing after an initial period of COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can last weeks, months or years and are often debilitating. [3] The World Health Organization defines long COVID as starting three months after the initial COVID-19 infection, but other agencies define it ...
The cause of pericarditis often remains unknown but is believed to be most often due to a viral infection. [4] [8] Other causes include bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, uremic pericarditis, heart attack, cancer, autoimmune disorders, and chest trauma. [4] [5] Diagnosis is based on the presence of chest pain, a pericardial rub ...