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Table 2 Cardiac causes of pediatric chest pain

From: Chest pain in a 12-year-old boy: when is it a harbinger of poor outcome?

Coronary artery disease—ischemia/infarction

• Anomalous coronary arteries

• Coronary arteritis (Kawasaki disease)

• Ischemic heart disease

Arrhythmia

• Supraventricular tachycardia

• Ventricular tachycardia

Structural abnormalities

• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

• Severe pulmonic stenosis

• Aortic valve stenosis

• Mitral valve prolapse

Infection

• Pericarditis

• Myocarditis