Can chest pains kill you?

Recently, a tall and thin Xiao Chen was watching TV at home when he suddenly developed right-sided chest pain accompanied by slight breathing difficulties. He had similar experiences in the past, but after a little rest, the chest pain slowly disappeared. Therefore, Xiao Chen said to his parents with great experience that it was okay, it would be fine if he rested, and there was no need to be nervous. However, after a few hours of rest, Xiao Chen felt that something was wrong, and he felt that the chest pain persisted, and he felt that his heart beat faster, and he felt dizzy and had cold sweats. After self-perception of the situation is not good, accompanied by his parents, Chen came to the hospital emergency, took an X-ray, said the right side of the pneumothorax, the lung is compressed 90%, and there is in to a large amount of fluid, to do emergency surgery. Chen’s parents did not understand why their son had similar chest pains before, but soon got better, why this time so serious, but also to operate. After some explanation from the doctor, Chen’s parents understood what was going on. Finally, Xiao Chen had a minimally invasive surgery in the hospital and was discharged on the 3rd day after the surgery. It turns out that Xiao Chen’s right lung has multiple pulmonary blisters, and when a blister breaks, the gas in the lung leaks into the chest cavity, and Xiao Chen feels chest pain. When the rupture is small and the gas leaking out is not much, the rupture will slowly heal itself and the gas leaking out will be absorbed slowly, so Xiao Chen’s chest pain will disappear after rest. However, the healed area of the rupture will be adherent to the roof of the chest, forming an adherent cord, which is often very thin and contains blood vessels. The next time another herpes breaks, the lung will be crushed and tear those adhesions, causing bleeding in the chest cavity. If there is more bleeding, the patient will feel dizzy, dizzying, rapid heartbeat, cold sweat, etc. If there is no timely surgical treatment, the patient will die because of hemorrhagic shock. At present, the surgical treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax is minimally invasive thoracoscopic treatment, which only uses 1-2 incisions of 1 cm in size in the lateral chest wall to complete the surgery, which is less traumatic, less painful and faster recovery.