Slipping Rib Syndrome: A Clinical Entity to Consider in Chest Pain

AMS Centro Medico del Ejercicio

Status: Completed

Conditions: Slipping Rib Syndrome

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Dynamic ultrasound

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04226638

AMS CentroMédicoEjercicio

Details and patient eligibility

About

Slipping rib syndrome consists on false or floating ribs hypermobility, whose can force the ribs to come in contact with each other. The authors reported a fourteen case series presenting a slipping rib syndrome.

Full description

Slipping rib syndrome consists on false or floating ribs hypermobility, whose can force the ribs to come in contact with each other.

The authors reported a fourteen case series presenting a slipping rib syndrome. Mean age 35.00 ± 10.66 years old; 64.29% men.

The 10th rib level was the most predominant, affecting 64.29% of cases. Dynamic ultrasound was the gold standard diagnostic tool. Different conservative treatments were applied in most of cases.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients presenting costal pain around 9th, 10th, or 11th rib.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients younger than 18 years old and older than 80 years old.