Precordial catch syndrome causes a short-lasting but sharp pain in the chest. It commonly affects young people but can be mistaken for other, more serious conditions. Precordial catch syndrome is ...

Precordial catch syndrome is a common cause of chest pain in older children and young adults. Precordial means ‘in front of the heart,’ which is where a person feels the pain. Its symptoms may ...

To the Editor: Michaelides et al. (Feb. 4, 1999, issue) 1 reported that the use of right precordial leads has the same diagnostic accuracy as thallium-201 scintigraphy during exercise testing for ...

But if the pain disappears almost as quickly as it came and you don’t have any other symptoms, it might be a harmless condition known as precordial catch syndrome. Not many people know about ...

After the RAD, this tracing shows all other diagnostic features of RVH, which are found in the precordial leads, and include tall R waves in V1, deep S waves in V6, and ST-T changes in V1-3.