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 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 ...

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 ...

The mean QRS axis is shifted to the right, which is right axis deviation (RAD), and this should make one think first of RVH. After the RAD, this tracing shows all other diagnostic features of RVH ...