Health Dictionary
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Coronary heart disease differential diagnosis
Introduction
Overview
Overview
There are a large number of causes of chest pain that coronary heart disease must be distinguished from.
Differentiating Coronary heart disease from other Diseases
Differentiating Coronary heart disease from other Diseases
- Air embolism
- Anomalous origin of coronary artery
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial myxoma
- Chest trauma
- Cocaine
- Collagen vascular disease
- Coronary artery dissection
- Endocarditis
- Hypercoagulable state
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypotension
- Luetic aortitis
- Nitrate withdrawal
- Raynaud’s Disease
- Takayasu’s Disease
- Thrombi from:
- Catheter
- Left atrium
- Left ventricle
- Prosthetic valves
- Variant angina
References
References
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