Decompression illness presenting as breast pain

Undersea Hyperb Med. 2006 Mar-Apr;33(2):77-9.

Abstract

We present two cases of decompression illness in women in whom the initial symptom causing distress after completion of the dives was breast pain. Both women were also subsequently found to have a patent foramen ovale. We postulate that breast pain may be an unusual under-recognized manifestation of decompression illness.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Breast Diseases / etiology*
  • Breast Diseases / therapy
  • Decompression
  • Decompression Sickness / complications*
  • Decompression Sickness / therapy
  • Exanthema / etiology
  • Female
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications
  • Humans
  • Pain / etiology*
  • Pain Management