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Hello doctor,
I have a tingling pain in the center of my chest at night when I sleep near dawn, which keeps repeating at this time. During the day, there is almost no pain or little pain. My blood pressure is normal, my electrocardiogram is a little slow at 53 l/min. Echocardiogram results were normal, only tricuspid regurgitation 1⁄4. Ask your doctor what is the cause of chest pain at night?
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Answered by Master, Doctor Cao Thanh Tam - Cardiologist - Cardiovascular Center - Vinmec Central Park International General Hospital.
Hello,
With the question “What is the cause of chest pain at night? ”, the doctor would like to answer as follows:
Chest pain can be a sign of many different diseases. If it is a transient chest pain, it is only a small symptom of common diseases such as indigestion. However, if chest tightness occurs continuously, related to exertion, repeated with increasing intensity, then it is more likely to be a sign of particularly dangerous diseases. Chest pain has many causes, usually due to the following main causes:
Chest pain due to cardiovascular disease. Chest pain due to pleural disease. Chest pain due to disease of the chest wall. In particular, chest pain due to cardiovascular disease is the most life-threatening. Chest pain due to cardiovascular disease is common in the elderly or has many comorbidities such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, etc. Dangerous cardiovascular diseases that cause chest pain are common. is aortic dissection, acute myocardial infarction, chronic coronary artery disease...
Therefore, if your chest pain symptoms recur many times, you should go to a cardiologist to be examined and done a treatment. a number of tests such as blood, electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, chest X-ray, stress test, coronary artery angiogram... After having the results, the cardiologist will have a definitive diagnosis and specific treatment advice for uncle.
If you still have questions about chest pain, you can go to a hospital under Vinmec Health System for further examination and advice. Thank you for trusting and sending questions to Vinmec. Wish you a lot of health.
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