While precordial catch syndrome doesn’t lead to other health conditions, it can produce anxiety in a young person and a parent. If you experience chest pains periodically, it’s best to discuss ...

Precordial catch syndrome is a form of chest pain that most commonly affects children and young adults. It is a sharp pain that occurs when a person breathes in. It is not related to the heart or ...

Children may get precordial catch syndrome when they’re as young as 6 years old. The pain may happen only once in a lifetime, or it may come back several times. People usually stop having this ...

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 th ...

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.