Open AccessChest Discomfort: A Confusing Symptom
Author(s) -
Richard Conti C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20614
Subject(s) - medicine , angina , myocardial infarction , ischemia , cardiology , myocardial ischemia , chest pain , infarction
When patients present with chest discomfort, efforts are made to determine whether the symptom is due to myocardial ischemia or something else. Julian, in 1981, suggested that “angina pectoris is a sense of discomfort arising in the myocardium as a result of myocardial ischemia in the absence of infarction.”1 Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.