What causes chest tightness?

Chest tightness can be caused by physiological factors such as mental tension and emotional excitement, or it can be caused by myocardial ischemia, myocarditis, pleurisy and so on.
1. Physiological factors: mental tension, emotional excitement, etc. will make the body sympathetic nerve excitation, causing vascular contraction, heart rate acceleration, etc., which can lead to the human body to appear chest tightness symptoms, generally in the mood to calm down, can be returned to normal.
2. Myocardial ischemia: in the case of emotional excitement, overwork, etc. will make myocardial ischemia patients myocardial oxygen consumption increases, thus causing myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, resulting in patients with chest tightness, palpitations and other symptoms.
3. Myocarditis: Myocarditis is mostly caused by bacterial and viral infections, which can cause myocardial damage and microvascular damage, thus causing patients to experience chest tightness, often accompanied by chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue and other symptoms.
4. Pleurisy: bacterial and viral infections can cause pleurisy, and the local inflammatory reaction or inflammatory exudation can lead to symptoms of chest tightness and chest pain.
Patients with symptoms of chest tightness related to a variety of factors, it is best to go to the regular hospital in a timely manner to improve the relevant examination, to clarify the specific causes of the disease, standardized treatment under the guidance of the doctor, so as not to delay the condition.