Heart & Cardiology/Experts

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2009-11-07 Weirdness:

Dear Laura, The most common cause of pain in a young person is cramping of the muscles in the chest wall. If you can modify the pain, make it better or worse, by pressing on the area that hurts, then

2009-11-07 Heart palpitations, chest heaviness, fatigue:

Dear Jacqueline, Measure your blood pressure sitting and then standing quietly for 1,3 and 5 minutes. If it gets below 90, that's the probable cause of your dizziness and fatigue. The most common

2009-11-07 THUMPING IN CENTER OF CHEST:

Dear Rita, No not life or health threatening. You're probably feeling skipped heart beats, which are normal heart activity, don't mean you have heart disease now or will in the future. The beat after

2009-11-06 anything and everything:

Dear Steve, Skipped beats are normal heart activity, no threat to life or health in someone with normal EKG and echo. About half of us have them, they are easy to understand as normal from knowledge

2009-11-06 Should i be worried?:

Dear Leigh, Left atrial enlargement means the upper chamber of the heart, probably the left heart, is larger than normal. Septal infarct means a heart attack involving the wall of the heart that divides