What’s with the chest pains?

Common causes of chest pain include trauma, pleurisy, costochondritis and heart disease. 1. Trauma: If the patient’s chest is hit or injured, there is obvious trauma, resulting in damage to the sternum, ribs, muscles and soft tissues, there may be a chest pain, especially in the process of exercise is more obvious. 2. Pleurisy: Chest pain is one of the most common symptoms in patients with pleurisy, and some of the patients may also cough up sputum, cough, and in severe cases, they may even have difficulty in breathing and other symptoms. 3. Costochondritis: usually due to infection, trauma, thoracic spine disease, chronic strain injury and other causes of inflammation at the junction of the ribs and sternum, accompanied by chest paroxysms, swelling and cough and other symptoms. 4. Heart disease: such as angina attack in patients with coronary heart disease, in addition to pain in the anterior chest area, there will be palpitations, chest tightness discomfort, rest or nitroglycerin-containing drugs after the symptoms are relieved, it can be manifested as exertion or emotional excitement after the chest paroxysm. There are many causes of chest pain, including massive pneumonia, pneumothorax, breast disease, etc. If the patient’s chest pain is obvious or does not get better for a long time, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, to clarify the cause of the disease, and target treatment.