Natural history of minor coronary events.
Coronary artery disease is an important potential cause of a sudden event such as myocardial infarction, chest pain or an arrhythmia. These may lead to immediate and unexpected incapacitation of a pilot. Current techniques for investigation allow the detection of a group of patients who have sustained a myocardial infarct or a major coronary event and who have a prognosis which is appreciably worse than that of the general population. But identification of a group with a good prognosis is more difficult. It is equally difficult to identify reliably patients who have suffered a minor coronary event and have an excellent prognosis. The presence of coronary disease predicts coronary events.
D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008004:Licensure; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D010559:Personnel Management; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011379:Prognosis