What causes pain on the right side of the chest

Pain on the right side of the chest may be caused by chest wall diseases, lung diseases, liver and gallbladder diseases. 1. Chest wall diseases: usually thoracic spine lesions, bacterial infections and viral infections can lead to pleurisy, intercostal neuralgia, costochondritis and other diseases, and these chest wall diseases can lead to pain on the right side of the chest, and the pain can be aggravated by deep breathing, coughing, and changing the body position. 2. Lung diseases: usually, bacterial and viral infections can lead to pneumonia and other lung diseases, and the inflammation stimulates the lung tissues and causes pain on the right side of the chest, especially when it leads to pleurisy, and it may be accompanied by coughing, coughing up sputum, shortness of breath, fever and other symptoms. 3. Hepatobiliary diseases: such as cholelithiasis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma and other diseases, because of tissue compression, nerve irritation, inflammation stimulation, etc., the patient will feel the pain on the right side of the chest, mostly accompanied by nausea, vomiting, jaundice, fever and other symptoms. There are many causes of pain on the right side of the chest, it is recommended to go to the hospital for timely examination when physical discomfort occurs, identify the cause of the disease, and then deal with it accordingly under the guidance of the doctor.

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