Heartache, generally known as chest pain in medicine, is commonly caused by chest wall diseases such as costochondritis, cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, respiratory diseases such as pleurisy, mediastinal diseases such as mediastinal emphysema, and esophageal diseases such as esophageal hiatal hernia.
1. Chest wall diseases: such as costochondritis, intercostal neuritis, rib fracture, subcutaneous cellulitis, herpes zoster, and so on.
2. Cardiovascular diseases: such as coronary heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic coarctation, acute pericarditis, cardiac neurosis and so on.
3. Respiratory diseases: such as pleurisy, spontaneous pneumothorax, bronchitis, pulmonary embolism, tuberculosis, pleural tumor, lung cancer, etc.
4. Mediastinal diseases: such as mediastinal emphysema, mediastinitis, mediastinal tumor, etc.
5. Esophageal diseases: such as reflux esophagitis, esophageal hiatal hernia, esophageal cancer, etc.
6. Others: such as liver abscess, cholecystitis, splenic infarction and so on.
There are many causes of chest pain, when chest pain occurs, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time, clarify the cause of the disease with the help of a doctor, and follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the treatment, so as to avoid delaying the condition.