A Rare Cause of Chest Pain Mimicking Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

Chest pain accounts for 6% of emergency room presentations (1). Differential diagnosis of chest pain ranges from benign pain arising from musculoskeletal system to the malignant reasons that may be fatal unless diagnosed and treated promptly such as myocardial infarction and aortic dissection. It is difficult to exclude cardiovascular causes of chest pain in the patients with atherosclerotic risk factors even chest pain is atypical, and coronary angiography may become obligatory to exclude myocardial ischemia. Herein, we present seven patients, who presented to the cardiology clinic of our hospital with chest pain, in whom coronary angiography has become obligatory for the exclusion of myocardial ischemia, and of whom further examinations after exclusion of myocardial ischemia revealed thoracic schwannoma.