This article discusses pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and pulmonary embolism in pediatric practice. Although children appear to have better outcomes than adults, the risk factors are substantial. Topics covered include the pathophysiology…
Chest pain remains a common complaint among children seeking care in the United States. Asthma and lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia can be significant causes of chest pain….
Even though chest pain in children is a common complaint, an underlying gastrointestinal cause is rare. The four common gastrointestinal conditions that present with chest pain include eosinophilic esophagitis, gastroesophageal…
Myocarditis and pericarditis are rare but important causes of pediatric chest pain. The diagnositic criteria, clinical course, causes, and treatment of myocarditis is reviewed. There is particular attention to the…
Although cardiac causes of chest pain in children are infrequent, arrhythmias are implicated in most cardiac related cases. The most common arrhythmias associated with chest pain are supraventricular tachycardias, but…
Chest pain is regularly encountered in pediatric medical settings and may be associated with many organic diagnoses that vary widely in morbidity and mortality. Patients with chest pain with and…
Cardiac ischemia in children is usually not an isolated disease in an otherwise normally formed coronary artery but is part of more complex congenital or acquired diseases. Although cardiac ischemia…
Children frequently present to a pediatric office or emergency department with the complaint of chest pain. Between 0.3% and 0.6% of visits to a pediatric emergency department are for chest…
The epidemiology and associated risk factors of pediatric chest pain are not well described. Several studies report the prevalence of chest pain types among children and adolescents; however, detailed prospective…
There is a high prevalence of sleep disorders in children and an apparent increasing need for pharmacologic management. However, because of the paucity of data available with regards to dosing,…
