Leg pain and chest pain do not typically occur together. However, there is a connection between leg pain and heart health, so a person may experience both of these symptoms at the same time. If a person is experiencing chest pain, they should seek medical attention immediately as it may indicate a heart attack. In… Read More »
A multi-center study (n=101) of the relationship between chest CT findings and the clinical conditions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia — published ahead-of-print and open-access in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) — determined that most patients with COVID-19 pneumonia have ground-glass opacities (GGO) (86.1%) or mixed GGO and consolidation (64.4%) and vascular enlargement in… Read More »
On chest day, finishers are awesome for giving your pecs and shoulders a final burnout. But this one from trainer Paul Sklar, C.S.C.S., will also light your core on fire. Sklar alternates back-to-back sets of resistance-band crucifix flies with single-arm shoulder-tap pushups. While all of the flies and presses drill his chest and shoulders, by… Read More »
A heart-in-mouth moment: X-ray reveals a perfect heart shape in a girl’s chest after she swallowed a necklace A 3-year-old girl presented to an emergency department in San Diego A radiograph confirmed heart-shaped foreign body in the thoracic esophagus The patient was taken to the operating room to undergo rigid endoscopy By Peter Lloyd for… Read More »