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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Acute Chest Pain Causes Mnemonic

CHEST MAPPPED

Cardiac anoxia (ie, ischemia or infarction) 
Hematological (e.g., sickle cell chest crisis) 
Esophagus (ie, spasm, esophagitis, rupure) 
Spinal (ie, nerve root damage, spinal column disease) 
Trachea or bronchus 

Mediastinum: infection or mediastinal emphysema  
Aorta: Dissection or aneurysm 
Parietal surfaces (ie, pleural, pericardial, diaphragm) 
Pulmonary embolus 
Pneumonia 
Extra-thoracic organs (eg, stomach, gallbladder, liver, pancreas) 
Diseases of viral origin (eg, epidemic pleurodynia, herpes Zoster, costochondritis)

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