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BBC News
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Daily Mail
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Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung), Germany - Aug 3, 2008
... or fatigue, chest pain or near syncope.5 Despite being mildly symptomatic, these patients still suffer from a severe and rapidly progressive disease. ...VTX:ATLN
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The Society of Chest Pain Centers, a nonprofit international society dedicated to care for victims of acute coronary syndromes and acute heart failure, ...

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Graded esophageal balloon distention. A new provocative test for noncardiac chest pain. -
CF Barish, DO Castell, JE Richter - Dig Dis Sci, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dig Dis Sci. 1986 Dec;31(12):1292-8. Graded esophageal balloon distention. A new
provocative test for noncardiac chest pain. Barish CF, Castell DO, Richter JE. ...

Development and evaluation of the Seattle Angina questionnaire: A new functional status measure for … -
JA Spertus, JA Winder, TA Dewhurst, RA Deyo, J … - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1995 - Elsevier
... A New Functional Status Measure for Coronary Artery Disease ... chest pain and
abnormal treadmili test results at the time of the study. ...

Emergency Room Triage of Patients with Acute Chest Pain by Means of Rapid Testing for Cardiac … -
CW Hamm, BU Goldmann, C Heeschen, G Kreymann, J … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1997 - content.nejm.org
... New Risk Score for Patients With Acute Chest Pain, Non-ST-Segment Deviation, and
Normal Troponin Concentrations: A Comparison With the TIMI Risk Score. ...

… of the Need for Intensive Care in Patients Who Come to Emergency Departments with Acute Chest Pain -
L Goldman, EF Cook, PA Johnson, DA Brand, GW Rouan … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1996 - content.nejm.org
... The risk of major complications in patients with acute chest pain can be estimated
on the basis of the clinical presentation and new clinical observations made ...

A Clinical Trial of a Chest-Pain Observation Unit for Patients with Unstable Angina -
ME Farkouh, PA Smars, GS Reeder, AR Zinsmeister, … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1998 - content.nejm.org
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine -- A Clinical Trial of
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Chest wall pain after aortocoronary bypass surgery using internal mammary artery graft: a new pain …
A Mailis, J Chan, A Basinski, C Feindel, G … - Heart Lung, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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The Evaluation of Chest Pain in Women -
PS Douglas, GS Ginsburg - New England Journal of Medicine, 1996 - content.nejm.org
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Esophageal chest pain: current controversies in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy. -
JE Richter, LA Bradley, DO Castell - Ann Intern Med, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... and esophageal causes, the evaluation of new esophageal motility disorders, the
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… Testing for Risk Stratification in Chest Pain Units The Chest Pain Evaluation by Creatine Kinase-MB … -
LK Newby, AB Storrow, WB Gibler, JL Garvey, JF … - Circulation, 2001 - Am Heart Assoc
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… clinical and economic value of a short course of omeprazole in patients with noncardiac chest pain -
R Fass, MB Fennerty, JJ Ofman, IM Gralnek, C … - Gastroenterology, 1998 - Elsevier
... Abstract. Background & Aims: Evaluation of new patients with noncardiac
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New Relief for Unexplained Chest Pain

Recent Study Finds that New Drug Relaxes Esophagus, Reduces Pain

Iowa City, Iowa – May 09, 2007 - The discomfort caused by esophageal (non-cardiac) chest pain is often severe, driving many patients to emergency rooms and physicians’ offices despite the fact that the ailment has no definable pathology. Although this pain may sometimes be the result of acid reflux disease, when this is absent most patients present hypersensitivity of the esophagus, and a recent study suggests a potential new way of managing this and other symptoms.

The study finds that theophylline, taken either intravenously or orally, appears to reduce esophageal chest pain by relaxing the esophageal wall and decreasing hypersensitivity. Lead author Satish S.C. Rao finds evidence that these beneficial effects may also be influenced by theophylline’s actions on adenosine receptors, altering esophageal sensory thresholds at the same time as relaxing the muscles.

Rao notes that “following oral administration, symptomatic improvement was seen in nearly 60 percent of patients, and the drug was reasonably well tolerated,” adding that “if a cardiac, pulmonary, musculoskeletal or esophageal source such as acid reflux disease can be excluded, our findings suggest that a trial of theophylline may be effective in relieving chest pain.”

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This study is published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article may contact medicalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net.

To speak with Joel Richter and Nicholas J. Talley, editors-in-chief of AJG, about this article and topic, attend Digestive Disease Week from May 19- May 24 in Washington, D.C.


Satish S.C. Rao, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, FACG is a professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and has published more than fifteen papers in the field of gastroenterology in the last decade. He can be reached for questions at satish-rao@uiowa.edu.
 
 
 
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