Symptoms of Coronary heart disease
Symptoms of Coronary heart disease
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Coronary artery disease:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
The classic symptom of CAD is angina, the direct result of inadequate oxygen flow to the myocardium. Anginal pain is usually described as a burning, squeezing, or tight feeling in the substernal or precordial chest that may radiate to the left arm, neck, jaw, or shoulder blade. Typically, the patient clenches his fist over his chest or rubs his left arm when describing the pain, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, fainting, sweating, and cool extremities. Anginal episodes most often follow physical exertion but may also follow emotional excitement, exposure to cold, or a large meal.
Angina has four major forms: stable (pain is predictable in frequency and duration and can be relieved with nitrates and rest), unstable (pain increases in frequency and duration and is more easily induced), Prinzmetal’s or variant (from unpredictable coronary artery spasm), and microvascular (in which impairment of vasodilator reserve causes angina-like chest pain in a patient with normal coronary arteries). Severe and prolonged anginal pain generally suggests MI, with potentially fatal arrhythmias and mechanical failure.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Coronary artery disease:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
The classic symptom of CAD is angina, the direct result of inadequate flow of oxygen to the myocardium. It’s usually described as a burning, squeezing, or tight feeling in the substernal or precordial chest that may radiate to the left arm, neck, jaw, or shoulder blade. Approximately 50% of women don’t present with the typical symptoms of angina. These women experience vague symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting.
Typically, the patient clenches his fist over his chest or rubs his left arm when describing the pain, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, fainting, sweating, and cool extremities. Anginal episodes most commonly follow physical exertion but may also follow emotional excitement, exposure to cold, or a large meal.
Angina has three major forms:
❑ Stable angina causes pain that’s predictable in frequency and duration and can be relieved with nitrates and rest.
❑ Unstable angina causes pain that increases in frequency and duration. It’s more easily induced.
❑ Prinzmetal’s angina causes unpredictable coronary artery spasm.
Severe and prolonged anginal pain generally suggests MI, with potentially fatal arrhythmias and mechanical failure.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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NHLBI Heart Disease & Women Are You At Risk: NHLBI (Excerpt)
Coronary heart disease causes chest pain (angina) and heart attacks.
Blood brings oxygen and nutrients to the heart. When too little blood flows to
the heart, angina results. When the blood flow is critically reduced, a heart
attack occurs. A lack of blood flow to the brain or, in some cases, bleeding in
the brain causes a stroke. Some other cardiovascular diseases are high blood
pressure and rheumatic heart disease.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI Heart Disease & Women Are You At Risk: NHLBI)
NHLBI, coronary heart disease: NHLBI (Excerpt)
Chest pain (angina) or shortness of
breath may be the earliest signs of CHD. A person may feel heaviness, tightness,
pain, burning, pressure, or squeezing, usually behind the breastbone but
sometimes also in the arms, neck, or jaws. These signs usually bring the patient
to a doctor for the first time. Nevertheless, some people have heart attacks
without ever having any of these symptoms.
It is important to know that there is a wide range of severity for CHD. Some
people have no symptoms at all, some have mild intermittent chest pain, and some
have more pronounced and steady pain. Still others have CHD that is severe
enough to make normal everyday activities difficult.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI, coronary heart disease: NHLBI)
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and may not be the full list of Coronary heart disease signs or Coronary heart disease symptoms.
Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Coronary heart disease may vary on an individual basis for each patient.
Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they
are indeed Coronary heart disease symptoms.
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