Angina Pectoris Without Chest Pain

Angina pectoris without chest pain.

Response I greatly appreciate the valuable response of Dr Phibbs to my Clinician Update on silent ischemia. Dr Phibbs’ aim was to widen this clinical entity, by stressing that it can be observed also during exercise testing, as he and his colleagues described in 1968,1 and that if its expression is other than angina in the left chest, for example, dyspnea, this should still be included in the d...

Angina pectoris without chest pain: clinical implications of silent ischemia.

We may never know whether the accuracy of William Heberden’s description in the 1770s of a new syndrome, centering around pain in the left chest and named by him “angina pectoris,” occurred because the author himself experienced the symptoms described.1 Heberden’s description of the symptoms has prevailed for centuries, as if it were written in stone. Decades later, this “pain in the chest” was...

CLINICIAN UPDATE Angina Pectoris Without Chest Pain Clinical Implications of Silent Ischemia

We may never know whether the accuracy of William Heberden’s description in the 1770s of a new syndrome, centering around pain in the left chest and named by him “angina pectoris,” occurred because the author himself experienced the symptoms described.1 Heberden’s description of the symptoms has prevailed for centuries, as if it were written in stone. Decades later, this “pain in the chest” was...

Musculoskeletal chest pain in patients with stable angina pectoris – diagnosis and treatment

Objective: To assess the intraobserver reliability (in terms of hour-to-hour and day-to-day reliability) and the interobserver reliability with 3 palpation procedures for the detection of spinal biomechanic dysfunction in the upper 8 segments of the thoracic spine. Design: A repeated-measures design was used in all substudies. Setting: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital,...

Angina pectoris.