Is It Possible to Experience Chest Pain When I Have a Covid Infection?

Family Medicine, Primary Care Roots Community Health Center, Hippo Education, Kameda Medical Center

Supervised by Kenji Taylor, MD

Pain in the chest can occur from COVID infection for a variety of reasons like musculoskeletal pain associated with fever and cough, pneumonia or inflammation of the heart.

Explanation

Chest pain may be caused by various factors. Typical symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, and sore throat, but other symptoms may also be observed. Chest pain may be from muscle soreness due to the body’s inflammatory response. It may also be due to muscle pain from coughing. A lung infection (pneumonia) may lead to chest as pain, as can inflammation of the heart (myocarditis) as is less commonly seen in COVID-19 infection.

(References)

Sinkeldam M, Buenen AG, Celiker E, van Diepen M, de Vos AM. Characteristics of chest pain in COVID-19 patients in the emergency department. Neth Heart J. 2022 Nov;30(11):526-532. doi: 10.1007/s12471-022-01730-7. Epub 2022 Oct 21. PMID: 36269453; PMCID: PMC9589604.
Becker RC. Evaluating chest pain in patients with post COVID conditions permission to think outside of the box. J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2023 May;55(4):592-603. doi: 10.1007/s11239-023-02808-8. Epub 2023 Apr 13. PMID: 37052772; PMCID: PMC10098243.

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