ABSTRACT
Objective To understand the cause of chest pain (precordium indisposition) in children and explore the thread of thought in its analysis.Methods Clinical data of 314 children with chest pain who visited the cardiovascular department for children of our hospital were collected and analyzed to study its causes.Results The cause could be attributed to organic cardiac diseases in 43 of 314 children (13.7%) with chest pain,to non-organic cardiac diseases in 108 (34.4%),to psychiatric-psychological factors in 60 (19.1%) and to unknown cause in 41 (13.1%).Average age of children with organic cardiac diseases was younger than that of children with other causes (P<0.05).Symptoms accompanied simultaneously in children with organic cardiac diseases were much more frequent significantly than those in them with non-organic cardiac chest pain and unknown causes (P<0.05).Conclusions Chest pain in children could be caused by a few causes,which was non-specific symptom for organic cardiac diseases,so, more should be taken into account in analyzing the cause of chest pain in children.