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Chest pain

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Therapy

Consider trying the following for patients with chest pain who continue to have symptoms, but have had cardiac disease excluded:
  • imipramine a

Why?

  • Patients with non-specific recurrent chest pain who take imipramine have 50% fewer episodes of chest pain after three weeks. a

 

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , N   Shenker , RS   Phillips