heart related condition!!!! my friend recently visited his gp due to a sharp stabbin pain just around the hear

Question

the gp sent him for an ecg but his heart was healthy however the muscles around the heart were having mad spasms i the dr never gave the condition a clinical name so i am unsure of what exactly i am looking for any similarities would prove helpful serious answers only please

he is 24 years old

Answer 1

shelly,

"sharp stabbing pain," "mad spasms."

H'm, well, they could indicate a problem, but if those were the only symptoms, then the problem would not be cardiac.

Cardiopathology is always accompanied by other symptoms. You do not mention shortness of breath, dizziness, radiating pain, a cough, vomiting or nausea, pain brought on by exertion, irregular heartbeats (I'm not sure just what "mad spasms" are. They could be pericardio, that is, muscles near or around the heart but not in the heart itself), sweating, fast heartbeats, fainting, or any of the other signs of heart disease. With the absence of such signs and a clear ekg, it would be justified, even prudent, to look for the cause elsewhere.

The closest it could possibly be would be early pericarditis. Is his pain worse when lying down and relieved or greatly lessened when standing up? Does he have a low fever? You could then suspect an inflammation of the sac around the heart ("pericarditis": 'per'i--around, 'card'--heart, 'itis'--inflammation) but if those signs are not present, then he wouldn't have that, either.

It would be right to conclude at this point that he does not have a cardiac disease.

Now, an ekg is a fairly blunt instrument. It can show many things, such as reasons for such pain if it arose in his heart muscle, but there are many things that it cannot show, too. Those problems, however do not fit the profile of the symptoms you mention, for they would be difficulties like Sick Sinus Syndrome, which would give him a really slow or stopping heartbeat which would make him faint.

So if the muscles "around his heart" were, what, contracting uncontrollably? then he might have a lung problem or perhaps an intercostal (between the ribs) injury. He doesn't play rugby, does he?

But it sounds very much as though he doesn't have a heart problem. Near to it, yes, but heart? No, I don't think so.

Answer 2

"the gp sent him for an ecg but his heart was healthy "
"dr never gave the condition a clinical name so i am unsure of what exactly i am looking for "
Sorry what exactly ARE you looking for,why should there be a "clinical name" for something that obviously isn't serious enough to warrant further investigation by your gp? If his heart is healthy why are you looking for other similarities?
Twandas answer is totally irrelevant.Peritonitis is an infection of the stomach or peritoneum.

Answer 3

My husband had the same thing, I will try to spell it, it is peratnitise. It is inflamation in the muscle around the heart. My husband was in ICU for 4 days., and was on medical leave for almost 3 mths. Thirty years later, he has had a heart attack, and could of died. The doctor said, the peratanitise most probably damaged his heart. It is no laughing matter,,, go to a heart specialist. It could prove fatal if you don't, but I hope it doesn't. Good Luck, and God Bless!!!!!

Answer 4

He just needs a girl from miami with big **** and slim body, to make him forget about the ugly women in the UK, and his old age. Just keep telling him he can get a 36.22.32 if he gives u his house and car.
The women in england are so ugly. Essex girls are nice though.