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Position Sensitive Chest Pain, Feeling Weak. Advice?
Question: My wife has a dull chest pain. It seems to be position sensitive. but she is very weak.
Hi,
Thanks for the query.
Dull chest pain in an 81 year elderly patient is always concerning. I appreciate your efforts to seek medical opinion here.
As a cardiologist, any pain in this age needs to be considered as heart related.
Other possible causes of dull chest pain include a muscular ache, gastroesophageal reflux disease, anemia, nutritional deficiency and so on.
I advice you to visit a physician for cardiac examination at the earliest to rule out heart related pathologies such as coronary heart disease. She needs EKG, cardiac enzymes and other relevant investigations.
Hope I have been helpful with my answer. Should you have any further queries, I am available to address them.
Regards
Thanks for the query.
Dull chest pain in an 81 year elderly patient is always concerning. I appreciate your efforts to seek medical opinion here.
As a cardiologist, any pain in this age needs to be considered as heart related.
Other possible causes of dull chest pain include a muscular ache, gastroesophageal reflux disease, anemia, nutritional deficiency and so on.
I advice you to visit a physician for cardiac examination at the earliest to rule out heart related pathologies such as coronary heart disease. She needs EKG, cardiac enzymes and other relevant investigations.
Hope I have been helpful with my answer. Should you have any further queries, I am available to address them.
Regards
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