[The significance of the angina pectoris syndrome in a multidisciplinary emergency unit]

A report is given on the incidence-rate of the angina-pectoris-syndrome in the reception ward of a multidisciplinary intensive care unit. In the course of 6 years a total of 83,048 patients was examined. 36,076 of them were patients with internal diseases, 28 per cent having cardio-circulatory disturbances. In only 25 per cent of the cases being admitted with the tentative diagnosis of myocardial infarction this could be confirmed. Complaints of arthrogenous or vertebrogenous character or hypertonic crises as causative factors for cardialgias must especially be taken into consideration differential-diagnostically.