title: [Clinical presentation and diagnosis of coronary heart disease].
abstract: Coronary artery disease may present as silent ischemia, chronic typical angina pectoris, unstable angina, Prinzmetal angina, acute myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death. These manifestations can usually be differentiated by the clinical history. Each of them has its own pathophysiology and, accordingly, therapy and prognosis are different. Myocardial ischemia is common to all of the manifestations and this can be assessed by history taking, ECG stress-testing, ambulatory monitoring, myocardial perfusion scanning, or radionuclide angiography (RNA). The diagnostic accuracy of these diagnostic procedures varies from 70% (history) to 81% (RNA).
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burckhardt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bassignana
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfisterer
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006334:Heart Function Tests; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D011875:Radionuclide Angiography; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography
vernacular_title: Erscheinungsformen und Diagnose der koronaren Herzkrankheit.