What causes an occasional muscle cramp-like feeling in the chest?

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I have thoroughly gone through your case and reports (attachment removed to protect patient identity) and can well understand your genuine health concerns.

Your lipid profile is fine, and there is no risk to cardiac muscles and blood vessels of the heart due to this cholesterol and its counterparts. The index is safe according to the blood work. Your high-sensitivity C-reactive protein is above normal and falls in the high-risk group for cardiac blood vessel issues like coronary artery syndrome. But this test is not that specific. We usually do repeated tests for C-reactive proteins and compare all of them separately over a considerable amount of time.

If there are no other risk factors for heart disease and there are no signs and symptoms of coronary artery disease, then we assume these raised result levels to be from some non-cardiac cause. In such a case, I preferably suggest you go for an exercise stress test, and if this indicates further investigations, then proceed with angiography for cardiac evaluation and to see if there is some issue related to the coronary arteries. Perhaps you mean that there was left atrial enlargement. It can be due to uncontrolled hypertension, and you need to take medications on time. Your doctor did well by adding Aspirin to the regimen as it reduces the risk of blood clot formation inside the enlarged chamber of the heart. We have to keep your blood pressure within limits, actually. And if that is fine, then no medications are needed unless proven otherwise after cardiac monitoring with time and some advanced tests.

I hope this helps.

Please revert so I can assist you further.

Thank you.