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  • Title: [Chest pain: differential diagnosis in general practice].
    Author: Schranz W.
    Journal: Fortschr Med; 1979 Sep 27; 97(36):1543-7. PubMed ID: 499963.
    Abstract:
    In patients with chest pain somatic pain (thoracic wall pain) has to be differentiated from visceral pain (organ pain). History and careful physical examination are diagnostic in most cases. Presented are rare and not well-known diseases like valvular aortic stenosis, idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis and the mitral valve prolapse syndrome. Not seldom they are masked by angina pectoris-like symptoms, although in general the coronary arteries are normal. In acute chest pain differential diagnostic considerations have to include lung embolism, acute pericarditis, spontaneous pneumothorax, acute dissecting aneurysm of the aorta and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract as well. Only after exclusion of any organic cause the diagnosis of "effort syndrome" may be made.
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