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European Heart Journal 1983 4(7):461-462;
Copyright © 1983 by the European Society of Cardiology.
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© 1983, by the European Society of Cardiology

Does it help to undiagnose angina?

A. M. DART*, H. ALBAN DAVIES{dagger}, T. GRIFFITH and A. H. HENDERSON

Department of Cardiology, Welsh National School of Medicine Health Park, Cardiff CF4 4XN, Wales

Received 3 August 1982; revised 8 October 1982; .

Address for correspondence. Professor A. H. Henderson, Department of Cardiology, Welsh National School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XN, Wales

Abstract

We reported recently the results of re-evaluating a series of 64 patients still experiencing pain originally diagnosed as angina but with normal coronary arteriograms. A musculoskeletal cause for the chest pain was established in 38 and an oesophageal cause in 17 of these patients. We here report these patients' self-assessment of their pain 2 years after this diagnostic reclassification. It is clear that the effects of a diagnosis of angina are not easily rescinded even when the non-cardiac cause of the chest pain is identified.

Key Words: Angina • chest pain


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